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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

“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' 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

“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

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)

— Ambrose

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

— William Barrett

“I had a pupil who turned in a couple of well-crafted essays on Descartes, subjecting "cogito ergo sum" to effective and damaging criticism...This was…

— Bryan Magee

“I create, therefore I am.”

— Lada Ray

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

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