Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.
Rene DescartesSo far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
Rene DescartesInstead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me.
Rene Descartes