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Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.
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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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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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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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Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
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Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
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Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.
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Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.
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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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Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only be a consequence of their inability to perceive clearly the relation between these two subjects, introduced much obscurity and confusion into their explanations.
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I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.
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Everything is self-evident.
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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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[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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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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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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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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Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of 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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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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