English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Rene Descartes Quotes

They do everything in their power to make fortune favor them in this life, but nevertheless they think so little of it, in relation to eternity, that they view the events of the world as we do those of a play.

Rene Descartes

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

John Powell quote: "Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in..."
Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites. John Powell
Alexander Dubcek quote: "After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned..."
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis. Alexander Dubcek
Maya Lin quote: "It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no..."
It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public. Maya Lin
Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like. Jaime Hernandez
In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness. Tennessee Williams
Rosanne Cash quote: "I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians."
I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians. Rosanne Cash
George Savile quote: "The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is..."
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past. George Savile
Todd Gitlin quote: "To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can..."
To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them. Todd Gitlin
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. Abba Eban
I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese. Iain Banks
I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years. Anthony Holden
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice. Harold Rosenberg
The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it. Larry J. Sabato
The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Charles Williams quote: "I generally give the title-page a fair chance," Roger said...."
I generally give the title-page a fair chance," Roger said. "Once can't always judge books merely by the cover. Charles Williams