Rene Descartes:

The power of judging well and of distinguishing the true from the false, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men.

— Rene Descartes Early Modern

Cogito ergo sum

Context

Discourse on the Method

Date / Period

1637

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3426/3426-h/3426-h.htm

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