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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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Situations in life often permit no delay and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.
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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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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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Few look for truth many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.
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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
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We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
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Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.
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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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And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
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Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
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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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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.
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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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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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The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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