Quotes about Descartes

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I think I am, therefore, I am... I think. — George Carlin
As I think therefore I amAm I more if I think more? — Richard L. Ratliff
If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they do — Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men. — William Harvey
Modern man, in so far as he is still Cartesian (he is of course going far beyond Descartes in many respects), is a subje — Thomas Merton, Zen and the Birds of Appetite
It is this kind of consciousness, exacerbated to an extreme, which has made inevitable the so called "death of God." Car — Thomas Merton, Zen and the Birds of Appetite
My laps-meter, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has rent the soul of We — Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins
I think, therefore I am?No, I simply am.I am. I am. I am.I will still be if I didn't think. In fact, it is only then tha — Kamand Kojouri
I thought of the fate of Descartes’ famous formulation: man as ‘master and proprietor of nature.’ Having brought off mir — Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single pr — Thomas Henry Huxley, Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. I — Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action wo — Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction
The basis of all reasoning is the mind's awareness of itself. What we think, the external objects we perceive, are all l — Trey Parker
Freud introduced the unconscious, which in effect dethroned man as the uncontested master of his own rational faculties. — Paul C. Vitz, The Self: Beyond the Postmodern Crisis
That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in m — Thich Nhat Hanh
Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe — René Descartes, Passions of the Soul
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematica — Nicholas Murray Butler
I have spent these last two days in concentrated introspection," said Cutie, "and the results have been most interesting — Isaac Asimov
I revered our theology, and aspired as much as any one to reach heaven: but being given assuredly to understand that the — René Descartes, Discourse on Method
When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamen — Steven Kotler, A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life