But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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