“Modern philosophy from Descartes onward has asked itself the question: How can the subject really know the object?” — William Barrett 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
... 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
To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do. — Frank Sinatra 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
“I assume therefore I think I think yet still don't know a goddamn thing.” — Brian Spellman 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
“Thought about the world is prior to thought about how to change the world. Accordingly, knowing-that is prior to knowing-how. Descartes was… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes.… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Descartes had somehow managed to use skepticism in service of orthodoxy; he preserved crucial shards of church doctrine—the immortal soul, for starters—while… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes, were… — Sophus Lie Copy Share Image
What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“We should start using the mind as a tool, he argues, instead of letting the mind use us, which is the normal… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon , Descartes , Newton — these tutors of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“For the mind depends so much on the temperament and disposition of the bodily organs that, if it is possible to find… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“How wrong she'd been, to believe a mind could reign over anything. For it did not reign even over itself...and despite all… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
“What Descartes did not know: no such isolated individual as he described can be conscious.” — Walker Percy 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
“Whatever our definition of truth may be, we can never renounce Descartes' clare et distincte (clarity and distinctness).” — Lev Shestov 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
A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what? — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“it seems as though Descartes (once more influenced by ideas from previous philosophical traditions) may have slipped into thinking that an idea… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“The great rationalist Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” The religious mystic the Buddha said, “I think, therefore I am not.”… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried… — Voltaire 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
