Top 61 I Think Therefore I Am Quotes
#1. I think, therefore I am, dangerous.
D.A. Hanks
#2. I think, therefore I am (obsessive and compulsive).
Amy Surprenant
#3. I think, therefore I am ... not here.
Nhat Hanh
#4. I think, therefore I am Confused.
Anonymous
#5. I'm also thinking a lot lately that Descartes has so much to answer for - his idea, "I think therefore I am." Western culture is so built around this overly cerebral disembodied way we've created all of our institutions, and we're impoverished by it. We're so much smaller for it. So
Krista Tippett
#6. 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!
Jean-Paul Sartre
#7. I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.
Kurt Vonnegut
#8. Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist."
Taisen Deshimaru
#9. 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).
Julien Benda
#10. The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.
Julius Evola
#11. The basic outline of the philosophy of the Buribunks: I think, therefore I am; I speak therefore I am; I write, therefore I am; I publish therefore I am.
Carl Schmitt
#12. Je pense, donc je suis; English: I think, therefore I am)
Rene Descartes
#13. I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian
A.E. Samaan
#14. 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.
Blaise Pascal
#15. The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.
Audre Lorde
#16. That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am."
I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#17. We should start using the mind as a tool, he argues, instead of letting the mind use us, which is the normal state of affairs. When Descartes said 'I think, therefore I am,' he had not discovered 'the most fundamental truth', Tolle insists; instead, he had given expression to 'the most basic error'.
Oliver Burkeman
#18. Thinking prevents us from touching life deeply. I think, therefore I am really not there.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#19. Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.
(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am")
Rene Descartes
#20. The will to win is more important then the skill to win. It is possible to achieve only what you actively pursue. Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. Keep your head high and work hard everyday, because you'll never get that day back
Lloy Ball
#21. I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am
Rene Descartes
#22. I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.
Craig Bruce
#23. I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.
Jeanette Winterson
#24. The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So I can say with some certainty, 'I think therefore I am.' But I cannot say, 'You think therefore you are,' because you are within my perceptual bubble.
Henry Markram
#25. Was that the sum total of my exsitence? I didn't get the erudition of 'I think therefore I am.'
Instead I got 'I am, therefore I want to fuck Jericho Barrons.
Karen Marie Moning
#26. I think, therefore I am. My fingers that caress these rose and frangipani petals are a result of my thoughts. I feel content, tender. I feel entranced, ecstatic and besotted by the fragrance of the flowers and this is because of my thoughts.
Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
#28. You cannot think if you are not separate from the subject of thought. Descartes said, "I think; therefore I am." The philosophic evolutionist reverses and negatives the epigram. He says, "I am not; therefore I cannot think.
G.K. Chesterton
#29. As we appreciate our feelings, we naturally build on Descartes' 'I think, therefore I am,' to realize 'I feel, therefore I am more than I think.
Deborah Sandella
#34. I think. Therefore, I am. I think."
- Anonymous
I found this written in tiny letters in the grout between the wall tiles above a urinal in a restroom at the University of Washington, circa 1980. I don't know if Descartes would have approved but I thought it was brilliant.
Gary Val Tenuta
#35. A long time ago, Descartes sad, "I think, therefore I am." But if you are not thinking, what?
Seungsahn
#36. DENNIS, in order to die, one must first be alive."
"Quod erat demonstrandum. Oh, yes, and also: I think, therefore I am.
Keith Caserta
#37. I think, therefore I am" vs. "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
Rene Descartes
#38. I Think, Therefore I Am ... I Think ...
David Ski
#39. I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.
Jacques Lacan
#40. 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.
Ambrose Bierce
#42. The material world claims, 'I am what I think', whereas spiritualism says, 'I am, therefore I think'.
Gian Kumar
#43. I think many people knows what I am thinking. The whole world knows I am not seeking independence, therefore is many Tibetan disappointed, and also some of our supporters - many Indians, many Europeans, many Americans are also disappointed because I am not seeking independence.
Dalai Lama
#44. I am, therefore I'll think
Ayn Rand
#45. Im thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, Why stop at one? I don't like being limited in that way. Therefore, I'm considering a platton of monkeys, so that people will look at me and see how mellow and well-adjusted I am compared to these monkeys throwing feces around.
Robert Downey Jr.
#47. Simplification Technique #1: I have some other priorities to think of at this very moment, therefore, I cannot commit on this. I am sorry.
Simon Wright
#48. Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed ... When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.
William Cowper
#49. I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.
Cynthia Kadohata
#50. I don't think that because I am Hispanic I should therefore do Hispanic work.
Andres Serrano
#52. I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;
Ambrose Bierce
#53. I think, use my imagination, and write; therefore, I am.
Every day I'm writing, I'm living. Every other day is just waiting.
Michael Berish
#54. I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.
Kate Atkinson
#55. 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
#56. It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.
Christopher Gadsden
#57. I love digestible art, but I make what I think is organic and realistic, and therefore it's incomplete and completely tangent oriented. I try to keep with what I am thinking about that day - which changes too fast.
Brian Chippendale
#58. I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.
Eric Williams
#59. The character, therefore, will depend upon the thoughts. I am what I think. I am what I think even more than what I do, for it is the thought that interprets the action. An act in itself good may become even bad by the thought that inspired it.
Basil W. Maturin
#60. I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.
Shirley Maclaine
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