It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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 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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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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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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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