Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering...
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new...
(n.) Egotism.
(n.) Egoism.
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of realit...
When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.
I am my world.
The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be asolipsist.
In my mind I lead a phantom's life. My neighbor makes me real.
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is How should I know?… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such...
Mike did not seem to grasp the idea of Creation itself. Well, Jubal wasn't sure that he did, either--he had long ago made a pact with himself to postulate a Created Universe on even-numbered days, a t...
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.
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 wh...
War, famine, disease, genocide. Death, in a million different forms, often painful and protracted for the poor individual wretches involved. What god would so arrange the universe to predispose its cr...