So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
RENE DESCARTESIn 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 doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Masked, I advance.
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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 reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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