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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

Rene Descartes

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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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Reason is nothing without imagination.
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How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
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The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that I could not choose a more appropriate subject for demonstrating how, with the method I am using, we can arrive at knowledge not possessed at all by those whose writings are available to us.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
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Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me.
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The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.
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And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
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Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.
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...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.
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I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.
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