Descartes comments, "But that which causes many to be persuaded that it is difficult to know God, and even to know what their soul is...that whatever is not imaginable seems to them unintelligible." p 35
Throughout Discourse on Method, Descartes emphasizes the importance of conducting one's thoughts in a progressive and solitary fashion. He argues that people don't believe in God because they don't think "insensibly" - but how could one find truth if thinking insensibly? Is this what makes God/religion an exception in philosophical thinking? If one can imagine all that is tangible, what is intangible can't be properly imagined.
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