It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
RENE DESCARTESTo think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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