Descartes Animals Quotes & Sayings

For indeed when painters themselves wish to represent sirens and satyrs [20] by means of especially bizarre forms, they surely cannot assign to them utterly new natures. Rather, they simply fuse together the members of various animals. Or if perhaps they concoct something so utterly novel that nothing like it has ever been seen before (and thus is something utterly fictitious and false), yet certainly at the very least the colors from which they fashion it ought to be true. And — Rene Descartes

Never make choices that will make you hurt others. If you will not help them, don't hurt them! — Israelmore Ayivor

I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role. — Hill Harper

The main reason I like UFC is not just the martial arts aspect, but it's about one person against the other person. It's about being able to test yourself with the truth. — Donnie Yen

Descartes said that animals were automata. I have always been certain that it was the threat of torture that stopped him saying the same held true for human beings. Neither I nor Matthew had time for souls. That we were intricate chemical machines never diminished our sense of wonder, our reverence for Vermeer and for Monet, our floating bodies in the salty water, our evanescent joy before the dying of the light. — Peter Carey

He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye. — Orson Scott Card

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse. — Monica Bellucci

You can build your strength, If you read enough books! — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's a wonder they ever get out of bed at all. But they do, repeatedly, thousands of times each. And not only that - they do it themselves, with no technology to help them. Maybe a little electrical activity in their toothbrushes and hairdryers, but nothing more than that. And all to reduce body odour, and hairs, and halitosis, and shame. — Matt Haig

When I leave here, when my final day on this earth is up, I want to leave in peace. I want to have peace in my heart. — Rodney King