“But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.”
― Meditations on First Philosophy
― 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.”
― Meditations on First Philosophy
― Meditations on First Philosophy
“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”
― Meditations on First Philosophy
― Meditations on First Philosophy
“That which cannot be expressed by speech, but by which speech is expressed—That alone know as Brahman and not that which people here worship.”
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“Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it also to things which I do not understand: and as the will is of itself indifferent to these, it easily falls into error and sin, and chooses the evil for the good, or the false for the true.”
― Meditations on First Philosophy
― Meditations on First Philosophy
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