Solipsism Quotes

• 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

  Real, Artist, Horrible

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

  Eugene Wigner

  May, Materialism, Mechanic

  Eugene Paul Wigner (2012). “Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses”, p.252, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Mi imaginación me hace humano y me vuelve tonto; me da todo el mundo y me exilia de él.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspiración, Estupidez, Igualdad

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1996). "Unlocking the Air and Other Stories", HarperCollins Publishers.

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• Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Attitude, Thinking, Space

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). "Diario de un hombre decepcionado"

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• 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

  Suicide, Hands, Insanity

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• El sujeto no pertenece al mundo, sino que es un límite del mundo.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Yo, Doe, Mundo

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.69, Psychology Press

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• 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 Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circus master managerial competence.

  Camille Paglia

  Depression, Smart, Careers

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• I obviously invented Solipsism

  Dean Cavanagh

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• 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

  Language, Repeats, Lays

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

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• 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

  Believe, Mean, Reality

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• ...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

  Home, Doe, Alternatives

  Jonathan Lethem (2010). “Chronic City”, p.341, Faber & Faber

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• When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.

  David Foster Wallace

  Troqueles

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• 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

  Sweet, Self, Play

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• Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Atheism, Servility

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

  Arthur Phillips

  Music Is, Minimum, Snobbery

  Arthur Phillips (2009). “The Song Is You: A Novel”, p.42, Random House

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• 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

  Hair, Cities, Skins

  Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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• Hay un cierto solipsismo en la enfermedad grave que reclama toda nuestra atención con la misma certeza que un agujero negro astronómico se apodera de cualquier cosa que tenga la mala suerte de caer dentro de su radio crítico.

  Dan Simmons

  Fall, Serious Illness, Black

  Dan Simmons (2014). "The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion", p.1125, Spectra.

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• 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 Banks

  Causes, Theory, Suspicion

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• Domesticity has been a challenge for me but painful as it's been, engaging with family has been a school for reducing solipsism and increasing my understanding of people's different reactions to stress.

  Phillip Lopate

  Stress, School, People

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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• La peor burla que Dios puede hacer de un moralista es que le obligue a ser solipsista.

  Kedar Joshi

  Worst, Mockery, Moralist

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• Pero los jóvenes adultos educados de los 90 -que eran, por supuesto, hijos de las mismas infidelidades y divorcios apasionados sobre los que el Sr. Updike escribió tan bellamente- tuvieron que ver cómo todo este valiente nuevo individualismo y autoexpresión y libertad sexual se deterioraban hasta convertirse en la autoindulgencia anómica y sin alegría de la Generación Yo. Los menores de 40 años de hoy padecen otros horrores, entre los que destacan la anomia, el solipsismo y una soledad peculiarmente americana: la perspectiva de morir sin haber amado alguna vez a algo más que a uno mismo.

  David Foster Wallace

  Children, Loneliness, Divorce

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• People think that I've committed myself to idealism, to solipsism, or to doctrines of the cabala, because I've used them in my tales. But really I was only trying to see what could be done with them. On the other hand, it might be argued that if I use them it's because I was feeling an affinity to them. Of course, that's true.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Pensar, Manos, Gente

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Pero exigir que una obra sea "relacionable" expresa una expectativa diferente: que la propia obra se acomode de algún modo a la experiencia del lector o espectador, o la refleje. El lector o espectador permanece pasivo ante el libro, la película o la obra de teatro: espera que la obra se haga por él. Si el concepto de identificación sugería que un individuo experimenta una obra como un espejo en el que podría reconocerse, la noción de relacionabilidad implica que la obra en cuestión sirve como un selfie: una confirmación halagadora del solipsismo de un individuo.

  Rebecca Mead

  Libro, Juego, Espejos

  "El azote de la 'relacionabilidad'". www.newyorker.com. 1 de agosto de 2014.

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• 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

  World, Disease, Assumption

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