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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
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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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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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Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.
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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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Wonder is the first of all the passions.
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Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
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There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.
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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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And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
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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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Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.
Rene Descartes
