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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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Famous Rene Descartes Quotes

“Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.)”

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Book:Meditations on First Philosophy

Source: Meditations on First Philosophy

“... 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.”

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Author:Rene Descartes

“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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Author:Rene Descartes

“For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance”

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Book:Discourse on Method and Meditations

Source: Discourse on Method and Meditations

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom”

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Author:Rene Descartes

“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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Author:Rene Descartes

“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.”

“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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Author:Rene Descartes

“I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am”

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Author:Rene Descartes