Milan Kundera Quotes

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.

I think, therefore I am.

I do not think therefore I am a moustache

I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.

I think, therefore I am ... not here.

They do not think, therefore they are not.

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

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

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

I move, therefore I am.

Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.

I dream, therefore I exist.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am.

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

I'm not a philosopher.

The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable.

I tell, therefore you are.

Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.

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

Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am," now raises him to say ... "I think, therefore I am not," (unless he takes thought into consideration only in that humble region where it is confused with action).

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!