Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve 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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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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Masked, I advance.
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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.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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 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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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