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Je supposerai donc qu'il y a, non point un vrai Dieu, qui est la souveraine source de vérité, mais un certain mauvais génie, non moins rusé et trompeur que puissant, qui a employé toute son industrie à me tromper. Je penserai que le ciel, l'air, la terre, les couleurs, les figures, les sons et toutes les choses extérieures que nous voyons, ne sont
... See moreRené Descartes • Méditations Métaphysiques (French Edition)
He would derive the rules governing existence at that scale armed only with that meagre handful of data. He would rely on no concepts, no images, no models. Reality itself would dictate what could (and what could not) be said about it.
Benjamin Labatut • When We Cease to Understand the World
I am better off than he is,— for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.
Plato • Plato: The Complete Works
only doubt with your gut. All Cartesian doubt is visceral.
David Bessis • Mathematica
We must isolate things to penetrate them more deeply, but then we must unite them in order better to understand them.
A.D. Sertillanges • THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods - Sertillanges
you are a consciousness using a body and a brain to express different levels of mind.
Joe Dispenza • Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
não poderia também haver nem “sujeito em si”, autônomo e livre, nem “fatos em si”, objetivos e absolutamente verdadeiros.
Luc Ferry • Aprender a viver: Filosofia para os novos tempos (Portuguese Edition)
Montaigne, no famoso adágio segundo o qual “filosofar é aprender a morrer”,
Luc Ferry • Aprender a viver: Filosofia para os novos tempos (Portuguese Edition)
Cette méthode, assez fastidieuse pour le lecteur, a l’avantage pour Spinoza de distinguer divers niveaux de lecture. Une définition explique les mots choisis et en donne le sens. Un axiome exprime une notion commune à la raison, c’est-à-dire une vérité première, indémontrable (« nous sommes tous d’accord pour dire que… »). Une proposition affirme
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