"("I think, therefore I am"), the idea that the mere act of thinking about one's existence proves there is someone there to do the thinking." - René Descartes
"("I think, therefore I am"), the idea that the mere act of thinking about one's existence proves there is someone there to do the thinking."
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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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Method consists entirely in properly ordering and arranging the things to which we should pay attention.
I was aware that the reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of thoughts.
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