Zira öyle çok kuşku ve yanılgıyla kuşatılmış bulunuyordum ki kendimi yetiştiremeye çalışırken elde ettiğim tek kazanç gitgide cahilliğimi görmeye baş… - René Descartes

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Zira öyle çok kuşku ve yanılgıyla kuşatılmış bulunuyordum ki kendimi yetiştiremeye çalışırken elde ettiğim tek kazanç gitgide cahilliğimi görmeye başlamış olmam gibi geliyordu bana.

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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 • Renė Dekartas
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Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe that he has done some good to us, or at least that he has had the intention of doing so.

Passions, III, 193. XI, 473-474. Trans. John Morris
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