Rene Descartes Quotes

They do not think, therefore they are not.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

I dream, therefore I exist.

I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist."

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?

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 do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?'

Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.

'Do not touch ontologically' doesn't mean 'are separated by empirically measurable hard edges.'