“ 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… Christopher Hitchens
“ 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… Philip K. Dick
“ 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… David Foster Wallace
“ 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… Robert A. Heinlein
“ [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. Samuel Butler
“ 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… Christopher Hitchens
“ 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… Martin Gardner
“ 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. Ludwig Wittgenstein
“ 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… Iain M. Banks
“ 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
“ Here in Alpha City, we have a common saying: “What we call ‘sky’ is merely a figment of our narrative.” The most dreamy-eyed among us seem to adorn themselves and their aspirations in that proverb and… Ashim Shanker
“ I don’t believe in solipsism, but I also believe that if I am not existing—nothing exists for me. Debasish Mridha
“ All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One. Anita B. Sulser PhD
“ And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.Who knows if I’ll be dead the day after tomorrow?If I’m dead the day after tomorrow, the thunderstorm day after tomorrowWill be another thunde… Alberto Caeiro
“ 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
