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The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.
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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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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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...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.
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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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