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Rene Descartes, a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and logician, is one of the most important thinkers in the history of Western philosophy. His philosophical ideas have had a profound impact on subsequent generations, particularly for his famous proposition 'Cogito, ergo sum'. Born on March 31, 1596, Descartes died on February 11, 1650.

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“Doubt is the origin of wisdom”

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“It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable”

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“The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.”

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“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”

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Book:Meditations

Source: Meditations

“In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the care with which we cultivate them, and apply ourselves to the deduction of diverse consequences from them, thinking that we are philosophizing well, while we are only departing the farther from the truth; from which it must be inferred that they who have learned the least of all that has been hitherto distinguished by the name of philosophy are the most fitted for the apprehension of truth.”

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“Nothing comes out of nothing.”

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“The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.”

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Book:French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes

Source: French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau, Hobbes