Laugier's method gives clarity

I asked myself how to account for my own feelings and wanted to know why one thing delighted me and another only pleased me, why i found one disagreeable, another unbearable. At first this search led only to obscurity and uncertainty. Yet I was not discouraged; I sounded the abyss until I thought I had discovered the bottom and did not cease to ask my soul until it had given me a satisfactory answer. Suddenly a bright light appeared before my eyes. I saw objects distinctly where I had only caught a glimpse of haze and clouds.
- Marc-Antoine Laugier (1713-1769) Essai

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An equally lonely search for 'clear and distinct' truths had been described by Descartes more than 100 years before. - Mari Hvattum