Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Masked, I advance.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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