Best Descartes Quotes

40 Descartes quotes by 36 unique authors

For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That… — Paul Engle
The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this… — Tariq Ramadan
Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder. — Flann O'Brien
In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure… — Woody Allen
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly,… — Jean-Paul Sartre
I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience… — Derrick Jensen
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though… — Bertrand Russell
What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration.… — Isaac Newton
The Z’s will kill us all, and then the Z’s will die out and in sixty years there will be no one to remember our… — John Green
I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that… — Haruki Murakami
Don't listen to people telling you that getting up early is best. René Descartes is one of history's most important philosophers, but he rarely got… — Gideon Defoe
The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in… — Eckhart Tolle
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, _Cogito ergo sum_ --whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the… — Ambrose Bierce
Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one. — Martin H Fischer
Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." Helvetius wants to say: "I feel, therefore I want to feel pleasantly." I prefer Hobbes who claims that… — Denis Diderot

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