I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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