Masked, I advance.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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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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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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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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