Reference > Quotations > The Columbia World of Quotations
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX
The Columbia World of Quotations.  1996.
 
 
NUMBER:16122
QUOTATION:Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everyone thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters do not commonly desire more of it than they already possess.
ATTRIBUTION:René Descartes (1596–1650), French philosopher, the Father of Modern Philosophy. Discourse on Method, part I, p. 1, Descartes Selections, ed. R.M. Eaton, Scribners, New York (1927).

Ironic opening line of Descartes’s famous work.
 
 
The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press.

CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
 
Google
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com