Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies Quotes

“Like a prisoner who dreams that he is free, starts to
suspect that it is merely a dream, and wants to go on
dreaming rather than waking up, so I am content to
slide back into my old opinions; I fear being shaken out
of them because I am afraid that my peaceful sleep may
be followed by hard labour when I wake, and that I
shall have to struggle not in the light but in the
imprisoning darkness of the problems I have raised.”
― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies

“If the ‘I’ is understood strictly as we have been taking it, then it is quite certain that knowledge of it does not depend on things of whose existence I am as yet unaware; so it cannot 28depend on any of the things which I invent in my imagination.”
― John Cottingham, Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies