Quotes About Cogito

#1. Cogito, ergo sum" - I think, therefore I am.

George Makari

#2. It is impossible to exaggerate how much better the formula es denkt in mir is than cogito ergo sum, which lets us in for pure subjectivism.

Gabriel Marcel

#3. Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.

(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am")

Rene Descartes

#4. I am not much for philosophy, but that old Descartes, he got me thinking. And therefore being. Anyone? Anyone? Cogito ergo sum jokes? No? Okay.

John Green

#5. For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.

Zygmunt Bauman

#6. 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

#7. As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

Martin Heidegger

#8. 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

#9. The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.

Gaston Bachelard

#10. [picket sign] COGITO ERGO NOTHING! ... [casual passerby:] "Cogito ergo your ass" ...

Donald Barthelme

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Let there be an end to thought. Thus do I refute Descartes.' I sprawled, not a cogito or a sum to my name.

Roger Zelazny

#15. If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

Petra Nemcova

#16. They who in folly or mere greed
Enslaved religion, markets, laws,
Borrow our language now and bid
Us to speak up in freedom's cause.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#17. But if you fake any trait long enough it becomes an essential part of you, like your fingerprint. So there's no point telling yourself not to be scared. You can't control your thoughts and emotions. But you can control your actions. In the end, we are the sum of what we do.

Adam Baker

#18. The hope crashes into reality and people get hurt.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#19. Laurent was a nest of scorpions in the body of one person.

C.S. Pacat

#20. Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.

James Dyson

#21. I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

John Cusack

#22. I assume therefore I think I think yet still don't know a goddamn thing.

Brian Spellman

#23. I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a lot. In New York, it can be gray and rainy and cold, and you still don't have any money, and you feel like a bad Dickens character.

Rich Sommer