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On the other hand, when too much time is occupied in traveling, we become strangers to our native country; and the over curious in the customs of the… - René Descartes
" "On the other hand, when too much time is occupied in traveling, we become strangers to our native country; and the over curious in the customs of the past are generally ignorant of those of the present.
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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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Descartes
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Cartesius
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Renatus Cartesius
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Renė Dekartas
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would be surprising if I had a clearer grasp of things that I
realize are doubtful, unknown and foreign to me — ·namely,
bodies· — than I have of what is true and known — namely
my own self. But I see what the trouble is: I keep drifting
towards that error because my mind likes to wander freely,
refusing to respect the boundaries that truth lays down. Very
well, then; I shall let it run free for a while, so that when
the time comes to rein it in it won’t be so resistant to being
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