5266 | It would seem that the thinking part is the individual self [Aristotle] |
1401 | Since I only observe myself to be thinking, I conclude that that is my essence [Descartes] |
2299 | I can exist without imagination and sensing, but they can't exist without me [Descartes] |
6907 | For Descartes a person's essence is the mind because objects are perceived by mind, not senses [Descartes, by Feuerbach] |
5017 | In thinking we shut ourselves off from other substances, showing our identity and separateness [Descartes] |
6721 | Ideas are perceived by the mind, soul or self [Berkeley] |
1352 | Thoughts change continually, but the self doesn't [Reid] |
5549 | Mental representations would not be mine if they did not belong to a unified self-consciousness [Kant] |