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 DESCARTESDoubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without 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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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