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Everything is self-evident.

— Rene Descartes

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  4. Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
  5. Je pense, donc je suis.
  6. I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
  7. One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
  8. I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

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  • truth
  • knowledge
  • clarity
  • obvious

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