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How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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Wonder is the first of all the passions.
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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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If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
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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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Situations in life often permit no delay and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the one which is probably the best. This frame of mind freed me also from the repentance and remorse commonly felt by those vacillating individuals who are always seeking as worthwhile things which they later judge to be bad.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.
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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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And thereby make ourselves, as it were, the lords and masters of nature.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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De omnibus dubitandum
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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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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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[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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He lives well who is well hidden.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt.
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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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