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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.
About René Descartes
René Descartes (March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650) was a highly influential French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and writer. He is known for his influential arguments for substance dualism, where mind and body are considered to have distinct essences, one being characterized by thought, the other by spatial extension. He has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and the "Father of Modern Mathematics." He is also known as Cartesius.
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Additional quotes by René Descartes
Γιατί επανέρχονται στη σκέψη μου αυτές οι συνηθισμένες απόψεις και κατακτούν την πίστη μου, σαν να τους δίνει το δικαίωμα η μακροχρόνια εξοικείωση μαζί μου να κυριεύσουν το πνέυμα μου, ακόμα και σχεδόν ενάντια στη θέληση μου
I am thinking, therefore I exist.
For these reasons, as soon as my age permitted me to pass from under the control of my instructors, I entirely abandoned the study of letters, and resolved no longer to seek any other science than the knowledge of myself, or of the great book of the world. I spent the remainder of my youth in traveling, in visiting courts and armies, in holding intercourse with men of different dispositions and ranks, in collecting varied experience, in proving myself in the different situations into which fortune threw me,