Rene Descartes Quotes

Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.

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• Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Travel
  • About
  • Spontaneity

• I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Best
  • Literature
  • Story

• Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Sweet

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • You
  • Advice
  • Facts

• She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Great
  • Children
  • Love

• It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Want
  • Know
  • Always

• I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

  

  Ira Glass
  • College
  • Talent
  • Class

• There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Something
  • Movement

• I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Find
  • Students
  • Nurture

• The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461

  

  Oswald Spengler

• I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.'

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Small
  • Police
  • Bold

• Πρὸς κέντρα μὴ λάκτιζε.

  

  Aeschylus

• While it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Truth
  • True
  • Science

• German law takes precedence over sharia. The full face veil should be banned, wherever legally possible.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Law
  • German

• Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Marriage

• Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Life
  • Death
  • Writer

• Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Friend

• The most interesting conversation is not about why Donald Trump lies. Many public figures lie, and he's only a severe example of a common type. The interesting conversation concerns how we come to accept those lies.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Why
  • Interesting
  • Lies

• The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Truth
  • Language

• Nobody, I suppose, could devote many years to the study of chemical kinetics without being deeply conscious of the fascination of time and change: this is something that goes outside science into poetry; but science, subject to the rigid necessity of always seeking closer approximations to the truth, itself contains many poetical elements.

  

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Study

• Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Truth
  • Reputation
  • Arguments