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Everything is self-evident.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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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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Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.
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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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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.
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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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On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended thing and on the other hand I have a distinct idea of body, in so far a this is simply an extended, non-thinking thing. And, accordingly, it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and exist without it.
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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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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
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I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.
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But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be.
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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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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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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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...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.
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Reason is nothing without imagination.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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