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Doubt is the origin of wisdom
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
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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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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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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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He lives well who is well hidden.
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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
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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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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.
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The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.
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It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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De omnibus dubitandum
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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 accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.
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A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.
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