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.
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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I think; therefore I am.
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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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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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I 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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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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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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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 first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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