I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the… — Rene Descartes · Skopia

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I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.

In the original Latin

Libere generali huic mearum opinionum eversioni vacabo.

Meditations on First Philosophy · 1641

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Descarte, René. "Meditations on First Philosophy." Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, translated by Donald A. Cress. Hackett Publishing, 1999, first meditation.

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Descartes, René. Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur [Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated]. Paris, 1641, first meditation.

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