To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
RENE DESCARTESMind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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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 greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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