Cogito Quotes

I am. I think. I will.

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

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

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

I think, therefore I am confused.

I think, therefore I'm going to have breakfast.

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.

The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.

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 think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.

I am, therefore I'll think.

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

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

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

I do not think therefore I am a moustache

I get mail; therefore I am.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

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