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"Mind you, there are thousands of clever men who would give anything for the chance to come in and take over from me, but I don't want that sort of person. I don't want a grown-up person at all. A grown-up won't listen to me; he won't learn. He will try to do things his own way and not mine. So I have to have a child."
The original statement was in French: "Je pense, donc je suis."
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You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough.
Make poverty history.
Stop aids, keep the promise.
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
"Le discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences" was originally published in French, and later translated into Latin. You can check any source on that.
If I write in French, the language of my country, rather than in Latin, the language of my teachers, the reason is that I hope those who use only their natural reason, pure and simple, will judge my opinions better that those who believe nothing but ancient books. And as for those who combine good sense with study, who are the only ones I hope to have as my judges, I am confident that they will not be so partial to Latin that they will refuse to listen to my reasons because I explain them in the common language.
- Descartes -
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I am not driven by people’ s praise and I am not slowed down by people’ s criticism.
You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough.
Make poverty history.
Stop aids, keep the promise.
"I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance."
-Socrates
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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when my fear is gone I will turn and face fears path, and only I will remain."
-Paul Atreides
Wait. We're not talking about the same book. I'm talking about Meditations on First Philosophy, where the famous idiom "Cogito Ergo Sum" actually came from.
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences may well have been originally published in French, but it's still the wrong book.
The Meditations (first published in Latin in 1641) consist of the presentation of Descartes' metaphysical system in its most detailed level and in the expanding of Descartes' philosophical system, which he first introduced in the fourth part of his Discourse on Method (first published in French in 1637).
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I am not driven by people’ s praise and I am not slowed down by people’ s criticism.
You only live once. But if you live it right, once is enough.
Make poverty history.
Stop aids, keep the promise.
Well. I was speaking specifically of Meditation on First Philosophy. Which was first published in Latin. She was talking about the Discourse on Method, which was first published in French.
And my point was that the famous idiom, "I think therefore I am", was first published in Latin, in the Meditations. Storm correctly said that the Meditations was an expansion on the Discourse on Method. However, "I think therefore I am" was not included in the Discourse.
Since it was first published in French. In the Discourse....so...really, you are just wrong. But doesn't matter, can happen to anyone...like it just happened to you.
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