“I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.”
Cogito, ergo sum.
René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
Variant: Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.
(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am")
“The ‘I think, therefore I am’ of Descartes, the ‘I feel, therefore I am’ of late eighteenth century Romanticism, and the ‘I possess therefore I am’ of bourgeois man are dogmas, partial at that, incorporated to define a being that is incapable of defining itself.”
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 40
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