Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
RENE DESCARTESI 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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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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