Rene Descartes Quotes

So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.

Rene Descartes

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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

Edmund White
- People
- American
- Die
I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

Ed Harris
- Family
- History
- Problems
There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

Ira Sachs
- Age
- Lost
- Digital
Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
- Work
- Society
- Black
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

Oprah Winfrey
- Mother
- Someone
- Biology
I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

Jack Welch
- World
- Money
- Confidence