Author: Descartes

Cited by

• Jim Holt (1)
  • IN: Why Does the World Exist? (2012) Non-Fiction, Cosmology, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am, however, a real thing and really exist. But what thing? I have answered: a thing that thinks.
    FROM: Meditations, (1641), Book, France
• Ted Kosmatka (1)
  • IN: The Flicker Men (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is impossible that God should ever deceive me, since in all fraud and deceit is to be found a certain imperfection.
    FROM: Meditations on First Philosophy, (1641), Book, France
• Robert Weinberg (2)
  • IN: A Logical Magician (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I exist)
    FROM: Discourse on the Method, (1637), Book, France
• Alejo Carpentier (1)
  • IN: Reasons of State (1974) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ...it is not my design to teach the method that everyone must follow in or der to use his reason properly, but only to show the way in which I have tried to use my own.
    FROM: Discourse on Method, (1637), Book, France