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Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.
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And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.
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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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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.
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Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.
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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 know that I exist the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
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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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It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.
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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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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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