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I think; therefore I am.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)

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I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), Discourse on Method
Without doubt one always looks more carefully at what one believes must be seen by many than at what one does only for oneself, and often the things that have seemed to me to be true when I began to concieve them have appeared false to me when I wanted to put them on paper.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), Discourse on Method
. . .to be useful to no one is, strictly speaking, to be worthless.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), Discourse on Method

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