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Quotation from Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies by Rene Descartes
“In short therefore I _am_ only a _thinking thing_ that is to say, a _mind_, or a _soul_, or _understanding_, or _Reason_, words which formerly _I_ understood not”
Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation II, trans. William Molyneux (1680)
The definition of the self that Hobbes attacks in his second objection, arguing that a thinking thing might still be a body.
Citation: "In short therefore I _am_ only a _thinking thing_ that is to say, a _mind_, or a _soul_, or _understanding_, or _Reason_, words which formerly _I_ understood not" — Rene Descartes, Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation II, trans. William Molyneux (1680). (id descartes-meditations-with-objections-q3)
