Cogito Ergo Sum Quotes

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

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

We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

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!

They do not think, therefore they are not.

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.

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

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

I move, therefore I am.

The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand.

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.

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

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

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 that I think, therefore I think that I am.

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.

I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.

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

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

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

I think, therefore I am.

I do not think therefore I am a moustache