Instead 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 DescartesThe principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.
Rene DescartesIt is possible that I am dreaming right now and that all of my perceptions are false.
Rene Descartes... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can be devised by man, and contains in itself movements more wonderful than those in any machine. ... it is for all practical purposes impossible for a machine to have enough organs to make it act in all the contingencies of life in the way in which our reason makes us act.
Rene Descartes