Rene Descartes Quotes

Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

Rene Descartes

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• I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.

  

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• The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

  

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• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

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• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

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• Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.

  

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• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

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• More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

  

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• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

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• I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.

  

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• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

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• If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

  

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• A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.

  

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• I'd like to be curvier.

  

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• There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.

  

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• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

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• I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

  

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• 'Homeland' is great at challenging our preconceived ideas.

  

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• London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

  

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• The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.

  

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• To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

  

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• I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

  

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• Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Faith