Metaphysics Quote by Denis Diderot

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

— Denis Diderot

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?

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— Eckhart Tolle

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— Ambrose Bierce

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— Wilkie Martin

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— Ray Kurzweil

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— Ronald Carter

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

— Allen W. Wood

“Our thoughts dictate how we feel; so it is important to recognize that we are as we think we are”

— Jeremy Aldana

Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as…

— Fernando Pessoa

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— Thomas Merton

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

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