"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power." ― Rene Descartes Topic(s): Power More From Rene Descartes "I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake." "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." "I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error." More In Power "What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking."― Voltaire "Disease generally begins that equality which death completes."― Samuel Johnson "Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power."― Gloria Steinem