When Writing About Transcendental Issues, Be Transcendentally

I Am Thinking, Therefore I Exist. (...) I Was A Substance Whose Whole Essence Or Nature Is Solely To Think, And Which Does Not Require Any Place, Or Depend On Any Material Thing, In Order To Exist. Accordingly This 'i' - That Is, The Soul By Which I Am What I Am - Is Entirely Distinct From The Body, And Indeed Is Easier To Know Than The Body, And Would Not Fail To Be Whatever It Is, Even If The Body Did Not Exist.

At Last I Will Devote Myself Sincerely And Without Reservation To The General Demolition Of My Opinions.

The Entire Method Consists In The Order And Arrangement Of The Things To Which The Mind's Eye Must Turn So That We Can Discover Some Truth.

For I Found Myself Embarrassed With So Many Doubts And Errors That It Seemed To Me That The Effort To Instruct Myself Had No Effect Other Than Th Eincreasing Discovery Of My Own Ignorance

Some Years Ago I Was Struck By The Large Number Of Falsehoods That I Had Accepted As True In My Childhood, And By The Highly Doubtful Nature Of The Whole Edifice That I Had Subsequently Based On Them. I Realized That It Was Necessary, Once In The Course Of My Life, To Demolish Everything Completely And Start Again Right From The Foundations If I Wanted To Establish Anything At All In The Sciences That Was Stable And Likely To Last.