Solipsism Philosophy Quotes & Sayings

You are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see. — Andrew Jackson

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

There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know. — Alice Walker

An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable. — Swami Vivekananda

Here
You always belonged here.
You were theirs, certain as a rock.
I'm the one who worries
if I fit in with the furniture
and the landscape.
But I "follow too much
the devices and desires of my own heart."
Already the curves in the road
are familiar to me, and the mountain
in all kinds of light,
treating all people the same.
and when I come over the hill,
I see the house, with its generous
and firm proportions, smoke
rising gaily from the chimney.
I feel my life start up again,
like a cutting when it grows
the first pale and tentative
root hair in a glass of water. — Jane Kenyon

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 reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others? What about the world of a schizophrenic? Maybe it's as real as our world. Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, and we can't explain ours to him. The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication ... and there is the real illness. — Philip K. Dick

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

When fixing problems, always do the least you can. — Steve Krug

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 questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph. — Martin Gardner

You're an unpopular man. Memorable-but remarkably unpopular. You have no friends, for instance, in Brooklyn. Around Henry Street, say, where old women sit on the stoops in their aprons and men play dominoes on cardtables by the curb. — James Sallis

I don't mind that people have questions and would look for someone to respond to their questions, particularly if their faith is not terribly well-known. — Mitt Romney

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe. — Matt Taibbi

Sometimes more bitterness is sown in five minutes than can be got rid of in a whole life; — Thomas Hardy

True renunciation comes through acceptance of all that life offers. — Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari

What do we want most for our children? What's most important in the grand scheme of things? We want them to grow up and be happy. — Adele Devine

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, I refute it thus. — James Boswell

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

Whenever we use our brain, we fire certain neuronal connections, and the more these connections get used, the stronger they become. — Olivia Fox Cabane