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Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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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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Wonder is the first of all the passions.
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I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.
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The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.
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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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He lives well who is well hidden.
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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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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 order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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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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The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
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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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Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
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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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I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
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Science is practical philosophy.
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In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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