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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Masked, I advance.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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I think; therefore I am.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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