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Quotation from Discourse on Method by 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”
Discourse on Method, Part I, trans. John Veitch (19th century)
The ironic opening, which grounds the method on the equal natural capacity of all to reason.
Citation: "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, Discourse on Method, Part I, trans. John Veitch (19th century). (id discourse-on-method-q1)
Portrait: Portrait of the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes (1596-1650), After Frans Hals, Public domain.
