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  • A fuller formation of Descartes's philosophy would be Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.†  (source)
  • I should add, by the way, that Descartes did not reject the possibility that animals could think.†  (source)
  • Admittedly, history's list of famous Rosicrucians was a who's who of European Renaissance luminaries: Paracelsus, Bacon, Fludd, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Newton, Leibniz.†  (source)
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  • In his book Descartes' Error, Damasio describes trying to set up an appointment with a patient with this kind of brain damage: I suggested two alternative dates, both in the coming month and just a few days apart from each other.†  (source)
    Descartes = René Descartes -- French philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
  • In the liberal atmosphere of seventeenth-century Holland, the French philosopher Rene Descartes found refuge and freedom to publish.†  (source)
    Rene Descartes = French philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
  • As was "Descartes Dream," by Misanthrope, the second song, which I went ahead and clicked on.†  (source)
    Descartes = René Descartes -- French philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
  • Rene Descartes was born in 1596 and lived in a number of different European countries at various periods of his life.†  (source)
    Rene Descartes = French philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
  • The statue of Descartes came to his mind first.†  (source)
    Descartes = René Descartes -- French philosopher and mathematician (1596-1650)
  • Descartes took a decisive step forward: he made manmaitre et proprietaire de la nature.†  (source)
  • Just the names-all the Greeks, of course, and Descartes, Locke, Shaftesbury, Leibniz, Vico, Eberhard, Herder, Schiller, Kant, Rilke, Keats, Schelling, and a hundred others, loaded all the cannon and made them ready to fire.†  (source)
  • We see what we see because these ghosts show it to us, ghosts of Moses and Christ and the Buddha, and Plato, and Descartes, and Rousseau and Jefferson and Lincoln, on and on and on.†  (source)
  • In society she cultivated a delicate and languid magdelinism, as a great lady might, and she carried a candle in the penitential parades, side by side with ladies who had nothing to regret but an outburst of temper and a furtive glance into Descartes.†  (source)
  • Once it came to me while reading a poet, while pondering a thought of Descartes, of Pascal; again it shone out and drove its gold track far into the sky while I was in the presence of my beloved.†  (source)
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