“ One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. ”
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“ Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. ”
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“ The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ”
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“ Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. ”
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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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“ 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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“ 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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“ It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. ”
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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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“ I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain. ”
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“ Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. ”
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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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“ Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.) ”
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“ ...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause. ”
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“ Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last. ”
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“ To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them. ”
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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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“ And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable. ”
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“ It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. ”
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“ You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing. ”
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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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“ And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable. ”
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