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“The I think, I am , is, since Descartes, the basic mistake of all knowledge; thinking is not my thinking, and being is not…

— Friedrich Schelling

“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

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

— William Barrett

“What is unconscious does not speak and that includes the hidden parts of himself.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one…

— Bertrand Russell

“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

“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. A living man knows himself not otherwise than as…

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Allen W. Wood

“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

“Descartes gave sight to the blind. These saw the errors of antiquity and of the sciences. The path he struck out is since become…

— Voltaire

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

— Zygmunt Bauman

“Although all sentient beings are endowed with this Enlightened Consciousness, they are not aware of its existence, excepting men who can discover it by…

— Kaiten Nukariya