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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.

René Descartes

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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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Alternative Names: Descartes • Cartesius • Renatus Cartesius

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Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Sağduyu dünyanın en iyi paylaştırılmış şeyidir, zira herkes onunla öylesine iyi donatılmış olduğunu düşünür ki başka her şeyde çok zor memnun olanlar bile sahip oldukları sağduyudan fazlasını hiç de arzu etmezler.

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

To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say. - René Descartes

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