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Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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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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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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For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
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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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