The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
RENE DESCARTESConquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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