RichardKennaway comments on Rationality quotes: October 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 05 October 2010 12:37:58PM 19 points [-]

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.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 October 2010 04:07:04AM 1 point [-]

Ha! That's very clever and nicely phrased. (And true, sadly.)