n â SelbstgefÃ¤lligkeit f; (over sbâs misfortune or failure) â Schadenfreude f; it wasnât pleasant to listen to their gloating â es war kein VergnÃ¼gen, ihren selbstgefÃ¤lligen Reden/schadenfrohen Bemerkungen zuzuhÃ¶ren; their gloating over their own success â ihre selbstgefÃ¤llige Freude Ã¼ber ihren Erfolg.
The mind is definitely stronger than the body. The mind is a very powerful thing, it controls your emotions, reactions, and it attracts negative or positive things to your life, depending on your attitude towards life, If you're a positive person, positive things are more than likely to happen to you.
1 I have a clear and distinct idea of the mind as a thinking, non-extended thing. 2  I have a clear and distinct idea of body as an extended, non-thinking thing. 3  Therefore, the mind is really distinct from the body and can exist without it.or instance, in the Second Meditation, Descartes argues that he is nothing but a thinking thing or mind, that is, Descartes argues that he is a âthing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, is willing, is unwilling, and also imagines and has sensory perceptionsâ (AT VII 28: CSM II 19).