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René Descartes

René Descartes (1596-1650)

“It is free-will alone or liberty of choice which I find to be so great in me that I can conceive no other idea to be more great.”

  • From René Descartes’ Meditations on the First Philosophy (Meditation IV), translated by Elizabeth Haldane and G. Ross (Cambridge University Press, 1911).

 

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