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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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He who hid well, lived well.
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But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be.
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God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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He lives well who is well hidden.
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The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
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And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
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Nothing comes out of nothing.
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I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise.
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There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.
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