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.
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 the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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.
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I think; therefore I am.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Masked, I advance.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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