W. C. Fields Quotes

I am, therefore I'll think.

I'm not a machine.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

A human being is a deciding being.

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

I rant, therefore I am.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I can, therefore I am.

I think and that is all that I am.

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

I dream, therefore I exist.

I am I plus my circumstances.

At times I think and at times I am.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

I think, therefore I am.