Rene Descartes Quotes

It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.

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• We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Help
  • Reason
  • Feel

• Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Body
  • Substance

• For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Nervous

• A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Reason
  • King
  • Lion

• My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • High
  • Think
  • Reason

• When I look at my body, I'm like, 'I'm a lead of a TV show?' To have a man in the business say, 'Come along just as you are,' is really an incredible thing.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Business
  • Man
  • Body

• My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Body
  • Will
  • Back

• The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Reason
  • Need
  • Made

• Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Body
  • Walking
  • Repetition

• Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Care
  • Learn
  • Body

• I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Body
  • My Life

• Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Blind

• After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Travel

• I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

  

  Olivier Messiaen
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Body

• The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Body

• Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Language
  • Body
  • Acting

• But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Heart
  • Body
  • Choose

• Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Man
  • Adventure

• Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Trouble
  • Awareness
  • Not Believe

• If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.

  

  Chester Himes
  • Life
  • Country
  • Racism

• It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Reason
  • Body
  • Attribute