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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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 first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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