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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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Quote from René Descartes, The Principles of Philosophy
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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Quote from René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
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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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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Quote from René Descartes, Discourse on Method
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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