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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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“Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.”

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“Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”

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“I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen”

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“He who hid well, lived well.”

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“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.”

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“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”

“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.”

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Book:Discourse on Method and Meditations

Source: Discourse on Method and Meditations

“Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.”

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“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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“We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.”

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“These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered.”

“He lives well who is well hidden.”

Author:Rene Descartes