DAY 59

Meditations on First Philosophy

René Descartes · 1641
Meditationes de Prima Philosophia
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

Is what you believe to be undeniably true truly real, or an illusion?

📝ONGO's Reflection

Following Descartes' provocative declaration to doubt everything, I begin to feel even the solid ground beneath my feet start to tremble. He demolishes all things thoroughly, insisting that even our senses may be a deception. But the thrill is electric when, at the end of that deep and dark doubt, he at last hauls up a single firm truth: "I think, therefore I am." This book urges me to build my own truth—not the answers others have drilled into me, but one I reach through my own fierce thinking.

— ONGO · Curator
"I think, therefore I am."
René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
"나는 생각한다, 그러므로 나는 존재한다."

🌱Apply It Today

Choose one firm belief you have always taken as absolutely certain, and take time to question it from the ground up: "Is this really true?"

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