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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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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.
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In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.
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The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
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For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?
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Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.
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Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.
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I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.
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I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.
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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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In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.
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How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
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We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.
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