while I wanted thus to think that everything was false, it necessarily had to be the case that I, who was thinking this, was something. And noticing … - René Descartes

Nihilque ab ullo credi velim, nisi quod ipsi evidens et invicta ratio persuadebit.

Δεν θα ήθελα να πιστέψετε τίποτα από όσα έγραψα εκτός κι αν έχετε πειστεί γι' αυτά μέσα από τη δύναμη και τις αποδείξεις της λογικής.

Certainly no one can deny that we have such an idea of God in ourselves unless they think that there is no knowledge at all of God in human minds.

I thence concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature consists only in thinking, and which, that it may exist, has need of no place, nor is dependent on any material thing; so that “ I,” that is to say, the mind by which I am what I am, is wholly distinct from the body, and is even more easily known than the latter, and is such, that although the latter were not, it would still continue to be all that it is.