Rene Descartes Quotes

There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.

Rene Descartes

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• Satisfaction
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• It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

  

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• People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
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• You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.

  

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• It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

  

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• Writing is the supreme solace.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.

  

  Fat Joe
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• With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

  

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• I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
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• There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

  

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  • Being
  • Nothing
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• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
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• Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

  

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  • People
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• People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • You
  • Broken

• I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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• I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

  

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• There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.

  

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• A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.

  

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  • May
  • Nature
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• I have no secret thoughts... Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them - if they're unknown, it's because no one asked.

  

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  • Thoughts
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• My fans are like, 'Lab does what he does,' which is really cool. If I came out with a Jack White rock tune tomorrow, people would be like, 'Yeah, cool man,' which is great.

  

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• I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

  

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• Lawyer - One who protects us against robbers by taking away the temptation.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Lawyer
  • Temptation

• Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Good
  • Business
  • Bad

• When you make a record, I always imagine people dancing to it. If the chef thinks it tastes good, then there will be someone who ultimately believes the same thing.

  

  Labrinth LSD
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• There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Good
  • Happiness
  • Actions