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.
First he decides he can be certain that he exists, because if he doubts, there must be a thinking mind to do the doubting. He does not yet accept that he is a thinking mind inside a body. After all, the demon could have convinced him that his body and the physical world exist.escartes concedes, however, that though what he perceives with his senses may be false, he cannot deny that he perceives. So the human mind is capable of both thought and perception. He explains this using the example of a piece of wax. We understand that solid wax and wax melted by a candle are both wax.