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.
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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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To 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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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