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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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So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.
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Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not deny that ideas were truly in my mind.
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On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended thing and on the other hand I have a distinct idea of body, in so far a this is simply an extended, non-thinking thing. And, accordingly, it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and exist without it.
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Reason is nothing without imagination.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
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God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.
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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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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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If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error if I take the other side, then it is by... chance that I arrive at the truth, and I shall still be at fault.... In this incorrect use of free will may be found the privation which constitutes the essence of error.
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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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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance
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There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.
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The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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Wonder is the first of all the passions.
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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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The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.
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