“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 fight, therefore I exist.”
No clear citations of this to Ben-Gurion have been located. A very early variant of this idea (which plays upon the statement of René Descartes "Cogito ergo sum" — "I think, therefore I exist") is found in Die Weimarer Reichsverfassung http://books.google.gr/books?id=VRBAAAAAYAAJ&q= (1922) by Leo Wittmayer, p. 255, a work about the Weimar Constitution, where Wittmayer speaks against the attitude, while stating it in Latin: "bello ergo sum". <br class="br">Misattributed
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