The empiricists believed that knowledge is acquired through experience alone, but the rationalists maintained that such knowledge is open to Cartesian doubt and that reason alone provides us with knowledge. Using reason without applying it to experience will only lead to illusions, while experience will be purely subjective without first being included under pure reason
Last words…surrounded by priests an others, he was asked to renounce the devil, to which Voltaire replied “Now is not the time to be making new enemies.” His last words were, “For God’s sake, let me die in peace!”