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• Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can never reach a point so high that it will be unable to attain any greater increase.

  René Descartes

  Believe, Ontology, Logic

  Rene Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, G. R. T. Ross (2003). “Discourse on Method and Meditations”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended thing; and on the other hand I have a distinct idea of body, in so far a this is simply an extended, non-thinking thing. And, accordingly, it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and exist without it.

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  Thinking, Hands, Ideas

  "Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy". Book by Rene Descartes, 1641.

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• Be that as it may, there is fixed in my mind a certain opinion of long standing, namely that there exists a God who is able to do anything and by whom I, such as I am, have been created. How do I know that he did not bring it about that there is no earth at all, no heavens, no extended thing, no shape, no size, no place, and yet bringing it about that all these things appear to me to exist precisely as they do now?

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  Long, Heaven, Mind

  "Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy".

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• I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

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  Dream, Sleep, Awake At Night

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• What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I do not contain the will within the same boundaries; rather, I also extend it to things I do not understand. Because the will is indifferent in regard to such matters, it easily turns away from the true and the good; and in this way I am deceived and I sin.

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  Errors, Owing, Matter

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• The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

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  Music, Moving, Sound

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• I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath.

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  Rocks, Doubt, Clay

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• When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.

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  Writing, Math, Issues

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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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  Believe, Perfect, Joy

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• But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming.

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  Soñar, Dormir, Despertar

  Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz (2011). “The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadolo gy & Discourse on Metaphysics”, p.114, Anchor

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• Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.

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  Thinking, Common Sense, World

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• For each of us there is a set limit to our intellectual powers which we cannot pass.

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  Encouragement, Hard Work, Intellectual

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• A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

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  Passion, Love Is, Two

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• Pienso, luego existo. (...) Yo era una sustancia cuya entera esencia o naturaleza es únicamente pensar, y que no requiere ningún lugar, ni depende de ninguna cosa material, para existir. Por consiguiente, este "yo" -es decir, el alma por la que soy lo que soy- es completamente distinto del cuerpo, y de hecho es más fácil de conocer que el cuerpo, y no dejaría de ser lo que es, aunque el cuerpo no existiera.

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  Thinking, Order, Essence

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• Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.

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  Real, Roots, Ontology

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• Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.

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  Deceived Us, Prudent, Deceiving

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• We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.

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  Ontology, Limits, Logic

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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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  Passion, Soul, Training

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• There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

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  Philosopher, Strange, Said

  "Discourse on the Method". Treatise by René Descartes, Pt. 2, 1637.

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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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  Life, World, Might

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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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  Life, Thinking, Perception

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• Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.

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  Confused, Thinking, Sensations

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• So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

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  Lying, Risk, Curiosity

  RENE DESCARTES (1952). “RULES FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE MIND DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE MEDITATIONS AND REPLIES THE GEOMETRY”

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• Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

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  Discovery, Statistics, Available

  Rene Descartes (2013). “Discourse on the Method: Discourse On the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth In the Sciences (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.19, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.

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  Believe, Men, Beast

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