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Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.
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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There is a great difference between mind and body insomuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible.
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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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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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I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.
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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 nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.
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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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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.
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Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.
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Science is practical philosophy.
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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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We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
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It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.
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Reason is nothing without imagination.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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[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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