Quotes about Cogito Argument

Ambrose Bierce

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.

Seungsahn Haengwon

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

Craig Reucassel

Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am.

Blaise Pascal

I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of
Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.

Rene Descartes

I am thinking, therefore I exist. (...) I was a substance whose whole essence or nature is solely to think, and which does not require any place, or depend on any material thing, in order to exist. Accordingly this 'I' - that is, the soul by which I am what I am - is entirely distinct from the body, and indeed is easier to know than the body, and would not fail to be whatever it is, even if the body did not exist.

Cogito Argument Quotes