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René Descartes

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René Descartes

(1596–1650) · French Philosopher & Mathematician

Was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science.

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.
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
I think; therefore I am.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

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