Top 100 Therefore I Am Quotes
#2. I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.
Craig Bruce
#3. I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God.
Caligula
#4. 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
#7. 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
#9. The ego tends to equate having with Being: I have, therefore I am. And the more I have, the more I am. The ego lives through comparison. How you are seen by others turns into how you see yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
#10. 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
#11. I suffer, therefore I am special. I am not understood, but for precisely that reason, I am worthy of greater understanding. 13.
Alain De Botton
#12. 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
#13. 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
#15. A good Christian is bound to relinquish not only goods and children, but life itself, for the glory of his Redeemer: therefore I am resolved to sacrifice every thing in this transitory world, for the sake of salvation in a world that will last to eternity.
John Foxe
#16. Beside me the monstrumologist murmured, I believe I am in hell, therefore I am there.
Rick Yancey
#17. 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
#18. What does the philosopher say? Odi ergo sum. I hate therefore I am.
Umberto Eco
#19. 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
#20. I am full of mistakes and imperfections and therefore I am real ...
Shaun Hick
#21. The fundamental message is self-righteous, and it takes this form: 'T. S. Eliot is a homophobe and I am not. Therefore, I am a better person than Eliot.' To which the proper response is: 'But T. S. Eliot could really write, and you can't.
Ken Wilber
#22. I Think, Therefore I Am ... I Think ...
David Ski
#24. After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn't say, "I fuck therefore I am".
Jeanette Winterson
#25. By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am.
Haruki Murakami
#29. I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.
Hal Higdon
#32. I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, "Hold!" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong ...
Swami Vivekananda
#33. I am God. So it's easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me, then I am in God. Therefore, I am God. God does not exist without me.
Morgan Freeman
#36. 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
#37. A long time ago, Descartes sad, "I think, therefore I am." But if you are not thinking, what?
Seungsahn
#38. DENNIS, in order to die, one must first be alive."
"Quod erat demonstrandum. Oh, yes, and also: I think, therefore I am.
Keith Caserta
#39. I am the end product of thousands of years of evolution; therefore, I am better equipped in both mind and body than all the emperors and wise men who preceded me.
Og Mandino
#40. Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am.
Craig Bruce
#41. Crazy people don't know they're crazy. I know I'm crazy, therefore I am not crazy. Isn't that crazy?
Johnny Depp
#42. I think, therefore I am" vs. "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
Rene Descartes
#46. 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
#48. The age of the Internet, it is said, is the age of the self and the selfie. The world is full of people full of themselves. In such an age, I post, therefore I am.
Os Guinness
#49. 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
#50. I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am. - Arthur Rimbaud
Cassandra Clare
#51. I think, therefore I am (obsessive and compulsive).
Amy Surprenant
#53. If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists.
Thomas Jefferson
#54. Everything I do with BLK DNM is more personal than anything I have done before. I've worked hard to go deeper in my true intuition, and therefore I am definitely more pure in my personal taste than ever.
Johan Lindeberg
#55. I think, therefore I am ... not here.
Nhat Hanh
#56. 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
#58. I'm a female
Fe= iron
Male= man
Therefore I am iron man
Val
#60. His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.
John Fowles
#61. Thank God, I'm actually infatuated and in love with what I do, therefore I am what I do. So I never have to forget [any of my ideas] because I never have to remember, I just am. I don't need to write stuff down.
Lil' Wayne
#62. I think, therefore I am Confused.
Anonymous
#63. And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
Arthur Rimbaud
#64. Religion says, 'I obey; therefore I am accepted.' Christianity says, 'I'm accepted, therefore I obey.
Timothy Keller
#65. Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak then I am strong.
Anonymous
#66. 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
#67. You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire."
"And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.
Sarah Beth Durst
#68. I may not be the best mom. I may not even get back to being the average mother I once claimed to be. But I'm here. I'm getting back up. I'm not leaving. And I'm the mom God ordained for these fours souls, and therefore I am their best mom.
Gillian Marchenko
#69. 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
#71. 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
#72. I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable.
Kurt Vonnegut
#74. The first item on a spiritual agenda is that I am not what I do, that I am what I am, and therefore I am a walking miracle, on a daily basis.
Malachy McCourt
#75. I am because WE are and, since we are, therefore I am.
John S. Mbiti
#77. Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist."
Taisen Deshimaru
#78. Today there isn't a university where they don't have special courses [Jewish studies or Holocaust studies], hundreds and hundreds of universities, young people today want to know more than their elders did, much more, and therefore I am very optimistic about young people.
Elie Wiesel
#80. Now, I'll tell you what, my friend," said Scrooge, "I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer. And therefore," he continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the Tank again: "and therefore I am about to raise your salary!
Charles Dickens
#82. Logic is illogical, madness is seeing the truth for what it is, which is sanity. therefore I am the most illogical sane person you will ever meet. ;)
Shannon Neprily
#83. I will spend the rest of my life assembling my own mind and my own soul. I will take care of my body carefully, not that it may any more please a man, but because it houses me and therefore I am dependent upon it.
Pearl S. Buck
#84. 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
#86. I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.
David Byrne
#87. If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.
Charles Kingsley
#88. To me nonviolence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people. Therefore I am devoting all my energies toward the establishment of a society that would be based on its principles of truth and peace.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
#89. I am free to write: therefore, I am free to be.
A.D. Posey
#90. Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.
Charles Spurgeon
#91. The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.
Julius Evola
#93. I think, therefore I am, dangerous.
D.A. Hanks
#94. I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.
Martin Luther
#95. Je pense, donc je suis; English: I think, therefore I am)
Rene Descartes
#96. So annihilation is a kind of laziness. But it still provides the satisfactions of agency: I wreck, therefore I am.
Lionel Shriver
#97. But I am so voluntarily, and therefore I am not destitute.
Hermann Hesse
#99. I am me, therefore I am the best.
Yoseob
