The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. -Rene Descartes

 

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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

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I think; therefore I am.

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. . .to be useful to no one is, strictly speaking, to be worthless.

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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

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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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