#ReneDescartes

“Modern philosophy begins with one man alone in a heated room, tearing down every belief he has to find the one thing that cannot be torn down.”

“Doubt everything you possibly can — the world, your body, even mathematics — and you hit one unshakable certainty: the doubting itself. On that bedrock, I think, therefore I am, knowledge can be rebuilt; but the rebuilding splits reality into mind and matter, and philosophy is still trying to glue them back together.”