Top 35 Quotes About Solipsism: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Solipsism

#1. Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.

Iain M. Banks

#2. A strange thing happens when you are very rich, even when one's wealth is as artificial as in our society. You develop a solipsism of sorts. The world yields itself to your will. Everything becomes your reflection, and after a while looking into your own eyes is dull.

Hannu Rajaniemi

#3. There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.

Dan Simmons

#4. Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.

Eugene Wigner

#5. How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one hand, if his belief is false it is like committing intellectual suicide, and, on the other hand, if his belief is true it is an act of intellectual insanity.

Kedar Joshi

#6. In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

Douglas Lain

#7. Beware of solipsism
Funny word. Sounds like it means "love of melons" or something. I looked it up. It means believing that "the self is the only reality."
Am I solipsist?

Jerry Spinelli

#8. In the holy solipsism
of the young
Now I can't walk thru a city
street w/out eying each
single pedestrian. I feel
thier vibe thru my
skin, the hair on my neck
it rises.

Jim Morrison

#9. Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. Solipsism. According to solipsism, reality exists only inside

Karen Joy Fowler

#11. I obviously invented Solipsism

Dean Cavanagh

#12. And on my fourth morning in Naples, I woke up alone. There was a note on the table with the breakfast that Cinzia had quietly prepared for me. It read, "It could never be. But that's why it will always be - perfectly divine. Cinzia"
City Solipsism: A Short Story

Zack Love

#13. Here it can be seen that solipsism, when its implications are followed out strictly, coincides with pure realism.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#14. Investigations "eliminated solipsism but not the horror." The only difference between this new predicament and that of the Tractatus was that rather than being trapped alone in our private thoughts, we were trapped together, with other people, in the institution of language.

James Ryerson

#15. Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

Jonathan Lethem

#16. I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me's no joke.

John Barth

#17. I don't believe in solipsism, but I also believe that if I am not existing - nothing exists for me.

Debasish Mridha

#18. But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Arthur Phillips

#19. solipsism of adolescence with its wild enthusiasms,

P. J. O'Rourke

#20. Is this narcissism? Solipsism? Idiocy (from the Greek word idios, for self)? Would Turing acknowledge it as a proof of human behavior? Well, perhaps. They drove Turing to suicide too.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#21. One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

David Foster Wallace

#22. The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

David Foster Wallace

#23. Everyone sees only their own reflection in the mirror of thought.

Marty Rubin

#24. For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty.

Sophocles

#25. When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.

David Foster Wallace

#26. My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#27. The stumbling block will turn out to be the traditional one for students of consciousness: the flashlight is incapable of shining on itself, so we can't trust what its light reveals.

Jonathan Lethem

#28. The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a
solipsist.

Kedar Joshi

#29. All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.

Anita B. Sulser PhD

#30. I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.

Christopher Hitchens