It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
RENE DESCARTES
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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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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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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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Masked, I advance.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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