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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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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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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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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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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.
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It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it.
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And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.
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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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Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only be a consequence of their inability to perceive clearly the relation between these two subjects, introduced much obscurity and confusion into their explanations.
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In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.
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Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.
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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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... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
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De omnibus dubitandum
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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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I know that I exist the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.
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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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