Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when 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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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