Be that as it may, there is fixed in my mind a certain opinion of long standing, namely that there exists a God who is able to do anything and by whom I, such as I am, have been created. How do I know that he did not bring it about that there is no earth at all, no heavens, no extended thing, no shape, no size, no place, and yet bringing it about that all these things appear to me to exist precisely as they do now?
Rene DescartesEverybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.
Rene DescartesI desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen
Rene Descartes