Rene Descartes René Descartes
philosopher · France · the Netherlands · 1596–1650
After roaming Europe as a soldier he lived quietly in the Netherlands and wrote mathematics and philosophy. He published the Discourse on Method in French, which anyone could read, not the Latin of scholars.
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1637
Good sense is the best shared-out thing in the world; for everyone thinks himself so well supplied with it that even those who are hardest to please in everything else do not usually want more of it than they have.
Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée; car chacun pense en être si bien pourvu, que ceux même qui sont les plus difficiles à contenter en toute autre chose n'ont point coutume d'en désirer plus qu'ils en ont.
Discourse on Method, the first sentence
1637
I think, therefore I am.
je pense, donc je suis
Discourse on Method, part 4
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