I am a thinking ( conscious ) thing, that is, a being who doubts, affirms, denies, knows a few objects, and is ignorant of many,- who loves, hates], wills, refuses, who imagines likewise, and perceives for, as I before remarked, although the things which I perceive or imagine are perhaps nothing at all apart from me and in themselves], I am nevertheless assured that those modes of consciousness which I call perceptions and imaginations, in as far only as they are modes of consciousness, exist in me.Ģ. I WILL now close my eyes, I will stop my ears, I will turn away my senses from their objects, I will even efface from my consciousness all the images of corporeal things or at least, because this can hardly be accomplished, I will consider them as empty and false and thus, holding converse only with myself, and closely examining my nature, I will endeavor to obtain by degrees a more intimate and familiar knowledge of myself. Descartes, Rene - Meditations on First Philosophyġ.
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