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If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error.
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 you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
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...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.
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Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.
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I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to demonstrate that they could not be otherwise.
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God alone is the author of all the motions in the world.
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Everything is self-evident.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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