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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.
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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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How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?
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I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.
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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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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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Science is practical philosophy.
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Reason is nothing without imagination.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom
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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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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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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.
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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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De omnibus dubitandum
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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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... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.
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