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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably be found in the thoughts we have when awake, rather than in our dreams.
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He lives well who is well hidden.
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...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.
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In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.
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On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended thing and on the other hand I have a distinct idea of body, in so far a this is simply an extended, non-thinking thing. And, accordingly, it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and exist without it.
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Science is practical philosophy.
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And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
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Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.
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Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.
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It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.
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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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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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Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not deny that ideas were truly in my mind.
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How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
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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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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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In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.
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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 only secure knowledge is that I exist.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance
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