Rene Descartes:

The long chains of simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult demonstrations, had led me to imagine that all things, the knowledge of which is open to man, are similarly dependent one upon another.

— Rene Descartes Early Modern

Cogito ergo sum

Context

Discourse on the Method

Date / Period

1637

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3426/3426-h/3426-h.htm

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