I'm going to close my eyes, plug my ears, detach myself from all my senses, and become more intimate with myself. I am a thinking thing. I am doubting, affirming, and denying; I know little and don't know much; I am loving, hating, willing, and rejecting; I am also imagining and feeling. I have told you all that I really know, at least what I have known until now.
Meditations on First Philosophy
——From the title page of "Memoirs from the Grave"