Descartes Site

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“it is not possible for there to be in us any thought of which, at the moment it is in us, we are not conscious.”
—René Descartes (1596–1650)

“I am not aware that any man has ever built on the spot which I occupy. Deliver me from a city built on the site of a more ancient city, whose materials are ruins, whose gardens cemeteries. The soil is blanched and accursed there, and before that becomes necessary the earth itself will be destroyed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)