Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes
René Descarteswas a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the father of modern western philosophy, much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day. He spent about 20 years of his life in the Dutch Republic...
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth31 March 1596
CityIndre-et-Loire, France
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The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.
But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be.
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I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else [...] that exists. All these attributes are such that, the more carefully I concentrate on them, the less possible it seems that they could have originated from me alone. So, from what has been said it must be concluded that God necessarily exists
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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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We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
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I think therefore am.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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De omnibus dubitandum
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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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... 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.