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Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
Rene Descartes
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Rene Descartes
Age: 53 †
Born: 1596
Born: March 31
Died: 1650
Died: February 11
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Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.
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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
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How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?
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How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
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When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
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And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.
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But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error.
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Give me extension and motion and I will construct the universe.
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Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.
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Wonder is the first of all the passions.
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The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.
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If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error if I take the other side, then it is by... chance that I arrive at the truth, and I shall still be at fault.... In this incorrect use of free will may be found the privation which constitutes the essence of error.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.
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In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.
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Everything is self-evident.
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Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.
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