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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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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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Wonder is the first of all the passions.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.
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Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.
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Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.
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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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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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Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.
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It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it.
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And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
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