An idea from Meditations on First Philosophy

Some of what you believe is false, and you can’t tell which part. You took most of it on as a child, long before you could check it. Testing each belief would never end. Test the foundations instead, because everything else was built on them.

From Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes

Enjoy The Road is a library of ideas from books that lasted, in plain words. A new one every day, free to read.


The Sunday email

One email each Sunday morning: the week’s seven ideas, a question to think about, and a link to a story to read to a child.

Get the Sunday email