Philosophy Quote by Rene Decartes — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Whenever you do something holy, you're improving one of the gods?”

“My conception of freedom. - The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us. I give an example. Liberal institutions immediately cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: subsequently there is nothing more thoroughly harmful to freedom than liberal institutions. One knows, indeed, what they bring about: they undermine the will to power, they are the levelling of mountain and valley exalted to a moral principle, they make small, cowardly and smug - it is the herd animal which triumphs with them every time.”

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”

“It's good to see the snakes revealing themselves. They weren't actually hidden at all. People hide behind the masks, but eventually you see them for who they truly are.”

“Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while.”