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.
RENE DESCARTESWhen 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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To live well is to live concealed.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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