Top 33 Cartesian Quotes
#1. No mother's nightmarish valley is so dark that Jesus cannot bear her burdens the whole way through.
Gloria Furman
#2. If you get it tested and find out you're actually retarded, that would be irony.
Erin McCahan
#3. I do not mind at all that [Newton] is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.
Christiaan Huygens
#4. I don't know how you can stand it. Over and over again, the same sadness - "
He lifted her up. "The same ecstasy - "
"The same fire that kills everything - "
"The same passion that ignites it all again. You don't know. You can't remember how wonderful - "
"I've seen it. I do know.
Lauren Kate
#5. Or, we may use Cartesian co-ordinate systems from the outset:
Hermann Weyl
#6. Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. It was getting to be the best conversation she ever had. She had always thought the only way to have conversations like that was in your head. Then
Norman Mailer
#8. I happen to have been born a Cartesian. The French education is based on a sequence of strict logic. You carry it with you.
Marcel Duchamp
#9. In his mature works from Ideas I, notably the Cartesian Meditations (1931), Husserl presented his approach as a radicalization of Descartes' project that sought to return knowledge to a foundation in the certainty of subjective experience (cogito ergo sum).
Dermot Moran
#10. A spectre is haunting Western academia ( ... ), the spectre of the Cartesian subject.
Slavoj Zizek
#12. There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking.
Rawi Hage
#13. Ernst Mayr characterized the Cartesian view of animals as dumb automatons.2
Frans De Waal
#14. CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.
Ambrose Bierce
#15. Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.
James Fitzjames Stephen
#16. He started as a maker of Cartesian devils - imps of bottle glass bobbing up and down in methylate-filled tubes hawked during Catkin Week on the boulevards. He
Vladimir Nabokov
#17. We're all prostitutes if you think about it. The whole capitalist system is built on meretriciousness. You sell your body or you sell your mind, and the Cartesian mind/body thing is a fallacy anyway, your mind is just your brain, so it amounts to the same thing really.
M. Thomas Gammarino
#19. Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding
Jean-Paul Sartre
#20. If a tiny flower can struggle and raise itself out of hard rocks to offer its beauty to the world, so can you. From The Cartesian Machine
Nick Tran
#21. Andy Clark has several books you can find on Amazon, including 'Natural Born Cyborgs' and 'Being There.' I particularly recommend 'Being There' to anybody who still thinks the Cartesian separation of mind and body should be taken seriously.
Karl Schroeder
#22. For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine.
John Burnside
#23. The full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in detail, essentially corresponds to the Cartesian idea of thought.
Zeno Vendler
#24. Our own self-awareness arises not in the Cartesian cogito, but in our finding ourselves in relation to other beings in whom we both actively recognize and do not recognize our own subjectivity, in an inexhaustible dialectic.
John Milbank
#25. The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.
Julius Evola
#26. He thought of it as a contest, like the children at school who would twist your arm and say Give in? Give in? until you did; then they would let go. He didn't love me, it was an idea of himself he loved and he wanted someone to join him, anyone would do, I didn't matter so I didn't have to care.
Margaret Atwood
#27. There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires.
Simone De Beauvoir
#28. He wanted to tell her that all at once he fell madly in love with everything about her, the way she kissed, the taste of her lips, her voice, her smell, her nearness ... but such a premature confession at this point could make her suspicious of his intelligence. From The Cartesian Machine
Nick Tran
#29. What is known is a matter of time, and time is a matter of what is not yet known.
Sage Blackwood
#30. To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.
David Malet Armstrong
#31. The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.
Theodore Dalrymple
#32. This is the textbook position on quantum mechanics and the nature of reality: that the Cartesian separation of mind and matter into two intrinsically different "substances" is false.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#33. Hayden [Sterling] told me that he was thrilled about the way he moved around the set, that wherever he would go, there would be lighting. He didn't think about his marks because they were set in the only places he could move.
Vilmos Zsigmond