Rene Descartes Quotes

Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.

Rene Descartes

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• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Think
  • Gay

• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Men
  • Think

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Powerful
  • Thing
  • Very

• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • Nurse

• It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Movie
  • You
  • Story

• People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

  

  Zola Jesus
  • People
  • Dark
  • Understand

• We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Poetry
  • Things
  • Looking

• The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • Change
  • Changes

• There's definitely been times where there's stuff that I have not been comfortable with, and I've had to put my foot down.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Down
  • Comfortable
  • Where

• If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Song
  • Throw

• Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes-while not becoming an extremist. Most companies don't do paradox very well.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Resilience

• O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • You
  • Know
  • Fifties

• There will be a 'Oops 100.'  They'll be plenty more oopses.  I'm not perfect.  I'm human.

  

  Britney Spears
  • Perfect

• As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Jealousy

• The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?

  

  William Hazlitt
  • World
  • Mind
  • Spirit

• Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Mind
  • Light
  • Intuition