I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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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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Cogito, ergo, sum. (I think therefore I am.)
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Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill
Plato they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle
Hobbes was fond of his dram
And Rene' Descartes was a drunken fart
'I drink, therefore I am'
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed
A lovely little thinker
But a bugger when he's pissed
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses
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Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for everyone thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even that those who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger meas
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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
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Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
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There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not 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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
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It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
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I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste.
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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
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Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
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Cogito ergo sum.
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The only secure knowledge is that I exist
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already has
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations
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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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The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations.
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