Date: 1606
To properly prepare a soul for God, one must "qualify it, cleanse it, strip it, and denude it of all opinion, belief, inclination, make it like a white sheet of paper, dead to itself and the world, so that God may live and operate in it."
preview | full record— Charron, Pierre (1541-1603)
Date: 1644, 1647
False judgments stick in the memory and are difficult to erase
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)