I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.René Descartes
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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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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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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If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.
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I thought the following four rules would be enough, provided that I made a firm and constant resolution not to fail even once in the observance of them. The first was never to accept anything as true if I had not evident knowledge of its being so that.
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