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The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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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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Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.
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How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom
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The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.
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It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
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For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?
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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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So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.
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Situations in life often permit no delay and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.
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We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
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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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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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Few look for truth many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.
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Everything is self-evident.
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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.
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