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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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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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Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.
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Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.
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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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And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
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Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.
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Reason is nothing without imagination.
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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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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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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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...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.
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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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Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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