it appears to me that I have discovered many truths more useful and more important than all I had before learned, or even had expected to learn. - René Descartes

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it appears to me that I have discovered many truths more useful and more important than all I had before learned, or even had expected to learn.

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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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Alternative Names: Descartes Cartesius Renatus Cartesius
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ينبغي لي إذا أردت الإهتداء الى امر ثابت أكيد في العلوم، ان امتنع عن تصديق ما يمكن الشك فيه، امتناعي عن تصديق ما يتضح فيه الخطأ اتضاحًا شديدًا.

They do everything in their power to make fortune favor them in this life, but nevertheless they think so little of it, in relation to eternity, that they view the events of the world as we do those of a play.

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