Solipsism – Quotes

Solipsism may be logically

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

I obviously invented Solipsism

I obviously invented Solipsism Dean Cavanagh

When a solipsist dies

When a solipsist dies … everything goes with him. David Foster Wallace

One of the things

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

The assumption that you

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

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 individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today’s sub-40s … Read more

There is a certain

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

Religion fosters servility and

Religion fosters servility and solipsism. Christopher Hitchens

Despite popular opinion, there

Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy … Read more

But music is, at

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