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Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

Rene Descartes

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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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This result could have been achieved either by his [God] endowing my intellect with a clear and distinct perception of everything about which I would ever deliberate, or simply by impressing the following rule so firmly upon my memory that I could never forget it: I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand.
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I know that I exist the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
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God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.
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How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
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De omnibus dubitandum
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He lives well who is well hidden.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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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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It is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.
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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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...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.
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A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.
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