Books Quote by Ambrose Bierce

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Instead of René Descartes' famous "Cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), I propose "Communico ergo sum," (I communicate, therefore I exist") as…

— Descartes

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.

— Zygmunt Bauman

“Nothing could be more alien to contemplation than the cogito ergo sum of Descartes. “I think, therefore I am.” This is the declaration of…

— Thomas Merton

Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist."

— Taisen Deshimaru

Descartes' immortal conclusion cogito ergo sum was recently subjected to destruction testing by a group of graduate researchers at Princeton led by Professors Montjuic…

— Tom Holt

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as…

— Bertrand Russell

“That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the eye as…

— Vik Muniz

“Trump managed a variation on Descartes’s “I think, therefore I am”: “I think it, therefore it is.”

— Bandy X Lee

“I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.”

— René Descartes

“The early Wittgenstein and the logical positivists that he inspired are often thought to have their roots in the philosophical investigations of René Descartes.9…

— Ray Kurzweil