The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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I think; therefore I am.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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