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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.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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Wonder is the first of all the passions.
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If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error if I take the other side, then it is by... chance that I arrive at the truth, and I shall still be at fault.... In this incorrect use of free will may be found the privation which constitutes the essence of error.
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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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Nothing comes out of nothing.
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I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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I know that I exist the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Even if I were to suppose that I was dreaming and whatever I saw or imagined was false, yet I could not deny that ideas were truly in my mind.
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