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.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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 a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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