Paul Valery Quotes

At times I think and at times I am.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

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

I think and that is all that I am.

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

I am, therefore I'll think.

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.

I tell, therefore you are.

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

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

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

The problem is we think we exist.

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!

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

I dream, therefore I exist.

I think, therefore I am.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

Every thought is an afterthought.

A thinking man feels compelled to approach all life with the same reverence he has for his own.

Without ego I don't know how identity works, I don't know... I need to sit down and re-read some philosophy or something.

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.

The essence of life consists in thinking, and being conscious of one's soul.