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" "I doubt;
Therefore, I think
Therefore, I am.
I see;
I take in the colours around me.
The patterns, the lights, the rainbows.
I see the night and the stars that glow.
I dream;
Therefore, I think.
Therefore, I am.
I smell;
The perfumes, the roses.
The stench, the rotten and the putrid.
The aromas and delicacies;
Cooking.
I inhale;
The green, the forest, the trees.
Therefore, I think.
Therefore, I am.
I hear;
The noises. The people, the cheer.
The wails, the screams, the tears.
The rejoicing.
The laughter, and happiness.
I listen;
Therefore, I think.
Therefore, I am.
I taste;
The sweetness, the fire.
The treats, and savoury delights.
The burnt, the spoilt and the tasteless.
The sourness and the bitterness.
I eat;
Therefore, I think.
Therefore, I am.
I speak;
Short messages. Long speeches.
Quiet whispers. Bellowing noises.
I scream;
Therefore, I think,
Therefore, I am.
I feel;
The despair.
The anguish, the fear.
The pricks, the cuts, the injuries.
The joy. The pride. The seething.
The envy, greed, and jealousy.
The cold, the heat and the shivering.
The pain, the sickness, the ageing.
I die;
Therefore, I lived.
Therefore, I was.
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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But this could not be the case with-the idea of a nature more perfect than myself; for to receive it from nothing was a thing manifestly impossible; and, because it is not less repugnant that the more perfect should be an effect of, and dependence on the less perfect, than that something should proceed from nothing, it was equally impossible that I could hold it from myself: