But as soon as I had finished my course of study, at which time it is usual to be admitted to the ranks of the well educated, I completely changed my… - René Descartes

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But as soon as I had finished my course of study, at which time it is usual to be admitted to the ranks of the well educated, I completely changed my opinion, for I found myself bogged down in so many doubts and errors, that it seemed to me that having set out to become learned, I had derived no benefit from my studies, other than that of progressively revealing to myself how ignorant I was.

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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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while I wanted thus to think that everything was false, it necessarily had to be the case that I, who was thinking this, was something. And noticing that this truth — I think, therefore I am — was so firm and so assured that all the most extravagant suppositions of the skeptics were incapable of shaking it, I judged that I could accept it without scruple as the first principle of the philosophy I was seeking.

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Et nous appellerons ces choses indéfinies plutôt qu'infinies, afin de réserver à Dieu seul le nom d'infini, tant à cause que nous ne remarquons point de bornes en ses perfections, comme aussi à cause que nous somme très assurés qu'il n'y en peut avoir. Pour ce qui est des autres choses, nous savons qu'elles ne sont pas ainsi absolument parfaites, parce qu'encore que nous y remarquions quelquefois des propriétés qui nous semblent n'avoir point de limites, nous ne laissons pas de connoitre que cela procède du défaut de notre entendement, et non point de leur nature.

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