Nikhil Jain

“[F]or all refutation must begin with some piece of knowledge which the disputants share; from blank doubt, no argument can begin.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“All knowledge, we find, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs, and if these are rejected, nothing is left.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Warrior Prophet

“I am not a collection of members which we call the human body: I am not a subtle air distributed through these members, I am not a wind, a fire, a vapour, a breath, nor anything at all which I can imagine or conceive; because I have assumed that all these were nothing. Without changing that supposition I find that I only leave myself certain of the fact that I am somewhat.”
― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy