Quotes of Philosophy

It is a falsification of the facts to say that the subject ‘I’ is the condition of the predicate ‘think.’ It thinks: but to say the ‘it’ is just that famous old ‘I’ is, to put it mildly, only a supposition, an assertion…” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886) Nietzsche is directly criticizing Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am.” He argues that Descartes illegitimately inserts a stable “I” as the subject of thinking, when all we actually have is the occurrence of thought itself.