Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together. Jostein Gaarder
About This Quote

This quote is an interesting one. It was said by the famous French philosopher, René Descartes who was born in 1596. He believed that human beings were made up of two parts, the mental and the physical. He also believed that God created humans to have separate minds and bodies.

The mind consists of thoughts, ideas and emotions which the body cannot control. It is this that makes man different from all other creatures on Earth. This quote is basically saying that we are not part of the world as we know it - we are dreaming and we are not ourselves.

Source: The Solitaire Mystery

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