Arbitrary Quote by Derrick Jensen

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

— Allen W. Wood

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

— James Mark Baldwin

“After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn’t say, "I fuck therefore I am".”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Since the days of Descartes it has been a conception familiar to philosophers that every visible event in nature might be explained by previous…

— George Santayana

“Modern philosophy from Descartes onward has asked itself the question: How can the subject really know the object?”

— William Barrett

“It took Descartes to deduce that God would not wish to deceive us. The world must be as it appears to be, the Frenchman…

— Tim Parks

It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and…

— Allen W. Wood

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

— Zygmunt Bauman

Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

— Ernest Sosa

“No one can depict desolation who hasn't inhabited desolation and observed it very closely. Things condemned have a terrible beauty.”

— Tove Jansson

Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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