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Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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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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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
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But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be.
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Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.
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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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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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