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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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And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.
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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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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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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
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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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Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
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Reason is nothing without imagination.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Everything is self-evident.
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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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Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.
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How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
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Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.
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I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise.
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There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.
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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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