A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what? — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
“Trump managed a variation on Descartes’s “I think, therefore I am”: “I think it, therefore it is.” — Bandy X Lee Copy Share Image
“Whatever our definition of truth may be, we can never renounce Descartes' clare et distincte (clarity and distinctness).” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one. — Martin H Fischer Copy Share Image
Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“The basis of all reasoning is the mind's awareness of itself. What we think, the external objects we perceive, are all like… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
Before Europeans learned about zero, Descartes could not have come up with Cartesian geometry. All anyone had ever tried was to do… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
For someone who claimed to have found the true method for seeking reliable knowledge, it is remarkable how wrong Descartes was about… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be,… — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Even if we don’t go as far as Descartes’s belief in an immaterial soul that somehow interacts with our body, it’s tempting… — Sean Carroll Copy Share Image
Don't listen to people telling you that getting up early is best. René Descartes is one of history's most important philosophers, but… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“Logic, according to the conception here formed of it, has no concern with the nature of the act of judging or believing;… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Since the days of Descartes it has been a conception familiar to philosophers that every visible event in nature might be explained… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter. — James Mark Baldwin Copy Share Image
Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist." — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
“Modern philosophy from Descartes onward has asked itself the question: How can the subject really know the object?” — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“What Descartes did not know: no such isolated individual as he described can be conscious.” — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Descartes walks into a bar, and the bartender asks "Would you like a beer?" Descartes replies, "I think not" and poof! he… — Various Copy Share Image
“I assume therefore I think I think yet still don't know a goddamn thing.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
“What Comfort can the Vortices of Descartes give to a Man who has Whirlwinds in his bowels!” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The term middle-aged, invented by Descartes, comes from the Latin, medeus, meaning 'not really old' and ageis, meaning 'if you look at… — Marilyn Suzanne Miller Copy Share Image
“The I think, I am , is, since Descartes, the basic mistake of all knowledge; thinking is not my thinking, and being… — Friedrich Schelling Copy Share Image
