1、Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
3、反对的意见在两方面对我有益，一方面是使我知道自己的错误，一方面是多数人看到的比一个人看到的更明白。
7、只有服从理性，我们才能成人。 ----《给工藤新一的挑战书》
8、因为神既然已经赐给我们每人一份分辨真假的天然灵明，我觉得自己决不应该有片刻工夫满足于别人的看法，只有打定主意在条件成熟的时候用自己的判断去审查别人的看法；我决不能马马虎虎地跟在别人的看法后面转，只希望自己不放过任何机会尽可能地找出更好的看法。——第22页 ----《谈谈方法》
9、A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
10、Je pense, donc je suis 既然我有思想，说明我是存在的
11、When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
14、总之，要始终相信：除了我们自己的思想以外，没有一样事情可以完全由我们做主。——第21页 ----《谈谈方法》
15、Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
除了我们自己的思想以外，没有一样事情可以完全由我们做主。 ----《谈谈方法》
16、If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
17、这三点对应着三种心理功能，外来的观念依赖于感觉；虚构的观念借助于想象；而天赋观念则出于纯粹理智。 ----《笛卡尔的人类哲学》
19、关于经验，我还注意到了一件事，就是认识越进步越需要经验。——第50页 ----《谈谈方法》
20、怀疑中我常常处于迷失状态，幸亏思想最终让我发现“我是真实的”，我思故我在。
21、“血液从右心室经动脉血管流出，造成肺部突然膨胀，反复多次地迫使血液中的空气猛烈地从肺部呼出，由此产生一种响亮而含糊不清的嗓音；同时，膨胀的肺部一边排出空气，一边运动了横膈膜、胸部和喉部的全部肌肉。并由此再使与之相连的脸部肌肉发生运动。就是这种脸部动作，再加上前述的响亮而含混的嗓音，便构成了人们所谓的笑。” ----《论情感》
22、我思考，故我存在。
23、The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
24、One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
25、I think,therefore I aml.
26、In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
27、The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
28、Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.I think; therefore I am.