I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am
Rene DescartesBut I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming.
Rene DescartesNothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Rene Descartes