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Whole Quotes by Rene Descartes
- If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons…
- How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
- When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be…
- As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements…
- I am thinking, therefore I exist. (...) I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which does not require…
- Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly…
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