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.

-Rene Descartes

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Some Years Ago I Was Struck By

Rene Descartes

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.

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Childhood

There Is A Difference Between Happiness, The Supreme Good, And The Final End Or Goal Toward Which Our Actions Ought To Tend. For Happiness Is Not The Supreme Good, But Presupposes It, Being The Contentment Or Satisfaction Of The Mind Which Results From Possessing It.

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