Quotes Tagged With :descartes

Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application....

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is....

I love, therefore I am.

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore....

I revered our theology, and aspired as much as any one to reach heaven: but being given assuredly to....

The basis of all reasoning is the mind's awareness of itself. What we think, the external objects we....

As I think therefore I amAm I more if I think more?

I thought of the fate of Descartes’ famous formulation: man as ‘master and proprietor of nature.’....

Modern man, in so far as he is still Cartesian (he is of course going far beyond Descartes in many respects),....