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Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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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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Everything is self-evident.
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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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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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He lives well who is well hidden.
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Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.
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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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This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.
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The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
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Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.
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Nothing comes out of nothing.
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There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
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Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
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Neither the true nor the false roots are always real sometimes they are imaginary that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.
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