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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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I know that I exist the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
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...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
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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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It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.
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I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.
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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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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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