I entirely abandoned the study of letters, resolving to seek no other science than that which could be found in myself, or at least in the great book of the world.
— Rene Descartes Early Modern

Cogito ergo sum

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Discourse on the Method, Part I

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1637

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Shocking

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34680/34680-h/34680-h.htm

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