Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. -Rene Descartes

 

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.


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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. -Rene Descartes
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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

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