“I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.”
David Gerrold book The Man Who Folded Himself
Source: The Man Who Folded Himself (1973), p. 79
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 21
Context: If thought exists, I who think and the world about which I think also exist; the one exists but for the other, having no possible separation between them. Therefore, the world and I are both in active correlation; I am that which sees the world, and the world is that which is seen by me. I exist for the world and the world exists for me. … One sure and primary and fundamental fact is the joint existence of a subject and of its world. The one does not exist without the other. I acquire no understanding of myself except as I take account of objects, of the surroundings. I do not think unless I think of things — and there I find myself.
“I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.”
David Gerrold book The Man Who Folded Himself
Source: The Man Who Folded Himself (1973), p. 79
“I should think that for one who has tasted the joys of creation, no other pleasure could exist.”
Anna to Trigorin, Act I
The Seagull (1896)
Original: (ru) Но, я думаю, кто испытал наслаждение творчества, для того уже все другие наслаждения не существуют.
Georges Braque (1882–1963) French painter and sculptor
Quote from The Power of Mystery (7 December 1957), a London Observer interview with John Richardson, as quoted in Braque: The Late Works (1997), by John Golding, Introduction, p. 10
unsourced variant translation: I made a great discovery. I don't believe in anything anymore. Objects do not exist for me, except that there is a harmonious relationship among them, and also between them and myself. When one reaches this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual void. This was everything becomes possible, everything becomes legitimate, and life is a perpetual revelation. This is true song.
1946 - 1963
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
Jamie Mayerfeld American political scientist
"The Moral Asymmetry of Happiness and Suffering", pp. 159-160
Suffering and Moral Responsibility (1999)
Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea
Ma pensée, c'est moi: voilà pourquoi je ne peux pas m'arrêter. J'existe parce que je pense … et je ne peux pas m'empêcher de penser.
Lundi ("Monday")
Nausea (1938)
Ernest Belfort Bax (1854–1926) British barrister and journalist
To-Day magazine, October issue ‘No Misogyny But True Equality’ http://historyoffeminism.com/ernest-belfort-bax-no-misogyny-but-true-equality-1887-complete/ <br class="br">‘No Misogyny But True Equality’ (1887)