Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“("I think, therefore I am"), the idea that the mere act of thinking about one's existence proves there is someone there to… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I am thinking, therefore I exist. (...) I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“My third maxim was to endeavour always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world,… — René Descartes Copy Share
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears. — Rene Descartes Copy Share
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
“For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it. The greatest minds, as they… — René Descartes Copy Share
“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding… — René Descartes Copy Share
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. — Rene Descartes Copy Share
[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
“And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs we call… — René Descartes Copy Share
“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the… — René Descartes Copy Share
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. — Rene Descartes Copy Share
If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots… — Rene Descartes Copy Share
It is only intelligence that is divided equally between people because everybody thinks he/she is enough wise — René Descartes Copy Share
