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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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Everything is self-evident.
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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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If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.
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A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.
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In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it.
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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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Wonder is the first of all the passions.
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God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.
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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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Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.
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Reason is nothing without imagination.
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I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.
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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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The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.
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