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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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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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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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I know that I exist the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
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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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Science is practical philosophy.
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The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
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Everything is self-evident.
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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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He lives well who is well hidden.
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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
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Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
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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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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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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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Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
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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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Reason is nothing without imagination.
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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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