If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
RENE DESCARTESIf you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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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 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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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