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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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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
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... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.
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It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.
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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.
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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 am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.
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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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[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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It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.
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The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
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How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
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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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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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He lives well who is well hidden.
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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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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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