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Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
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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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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
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We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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De omnibus dubitandum
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I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am
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