Cartesian Thinking Quotes

#1. There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking.

Rawi Hage

#2. If you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

Ethel Smyth

#3. In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.

Charles Darwin

#4. I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.

David Blaine

#5. When she bought the cats her mother asked her straight out if they were 'baby substitutes'. 'No,' Ruth had answered, straight-faced. 'They're kittens. If I had a baby it would be a cat substitute.

Elly Griffiths

#6. think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your

J.K. Rowling

#7. The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court ... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.

William O. Douglas

#8. Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.

Albert Camus

#9. 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

#10. Don't be ashamed of being a big, soft teddy bear, Ham. The world needs more people like you, otherwise it'd just go to shit. - Ten

Linda Kage

#11. All good art is political. Between the lines of every book, the author implants messages for the unsuspecting reader. If not, what point does it serve?

Chloe Thurlow

#12. 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

#13. This purity is attained through conquering the passions.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

#14. Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)

Kate DiCamillo