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.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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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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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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