Quotes about ergo (15 Quotes)




    At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools. Excepting only death, he has no enemies left to meet.... That man has awakened to a new youth.... Ergo, he is young.

    Households with children may use their washing machines every day, ergo they will be big users of detergent and fabric conditioners. And it's not a huge mental leap to say they also eat a lot of food. If they've got babies, they're going to be using a lot of diapers. And the kids are probably going to eat a lot of confectionary, and they'll be using a lot of soap and shampoo.




    The biologist can push it back to the original protist, and the chemist can push it back to the crystal, but none of them touch the real question of why or how the thing began at all. The astronomer goes back untold million of years and ends in gas and emptiness, and then the mathematician sweeps the whole cosmos into unreality and leaves one with mind as the only thing of which we have any immediate apprehension. Cogito ergo sum, ergo omnia esse videntur. All this bother, and we are no further than Descartes. Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.

    In the New Testament the Savior of the world, our Lord Jesus Christ, represents the situation thus The way that leads to life is straight, the gate narrowfew be they who find itnow, on the contrary, to speak only of Denmark, we are all Christians, the way is as broad as it possibly can be, the broadest in Denmark, since it is the way in which we all are walking, besides being in all respects as convenient, as comfortable, as possible and the gate is as wide as it possibly can be, wider surely a gate cannot be than that through which we all are going en masse.... Ergo the New Testament is no longer truth.

    CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.




    CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum --whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum --I think that I think, therefore I think that I am as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

    For I am I ergo, the truth of myself my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortexasymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white mine own unison in duality.




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