“The chair had four arm rests, because that’s what happens when someone has four arms. Leading” — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion. — John C. Wright Emotion Copy Share Image
“I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person” — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“Vows are powerful things," he said. "They set things in motion.” — John C. Wright Vows Copy Share Image
“The sensation of a baseball bat to the face was not any more pleasant when it came from an unexpected direction, without… — John C. Wright Baseball Copy Share Image
“By the time the Milky Way collided with Andromeda, the war between them, for all practical purposes, was over.” — John C. Wright Andromeda Copy Share Image
“You think you know someone your whole life, and he turns out to be a German-gypsy interdimensional dark elf spy who can… — John C. Wright Gypsy Copy Share Image
“Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that… — John C. Wright Music Copy Share Image
If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of… — John C. Wright Atheism Copy Share Image
“Truth destroys the worst in man; pleasure destroys the best. If you love truth more than happiness, then open; otherwise, let rest.”… — John C. Wright Happiness Copy Share Image
“Human nature, for better or worse, always eventually comes to the fore again. And human nature likes and needs stories that are… — John C. Wright Human nature Copy Share Image
“Dr. Henry Templeton got the drop on me after I killed his grandfather before he was born. Apparently, that wasn’t enough to… — John C. Wright Grandfather Copy Share Image
“And this help? It includes things as subtle as somehow tricking our astronomers into calling M44 the Beehive Cluster just to freak… — John C. Wright Coincidence Copy Share Image
“Indeed, I propose the idea that confusing strength with masculinity is in truth not a feminist ideal, but a misogynistic idea. He… — John C. Wright Femininity Copy Share Image
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism… — John C. Wright Atheism Copy Share Image
“Montrose shook his head. “M3 never said anything about a duel, nor any of the Dominions me and mine conquered and combined… — John C. Wright Galaxy Copy Share Image
“The armor he wore was not the dueling armor he had expected. The breastplate was chased with a design of red and… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom… — John C. Wright Ambition Copy Share Image
“On THE AMBER SPYGLASS: "If this plotline was a motorist, it would have been arrested for driving while intoxicated, if it had… — John C. Wright Books Copy Share Image
“ ... a Second Generation of machine intelligences was attempted, designed with their instructions for how to think unalterably imprinted into their… — John C. Wright Computers Copy Share Image
“But when the wizard is onstage as the main character, you have to adopt what I call the Jack Vance Rule. I… — John C. Wright Fantasy Copy Share Image
“The terms predator and prey are inexact. Master and slave are a closer parallel, or puppet and puppeteer. The intelligence virus was… — John C. Wright Food chain Copy Share Image
“Phaethon asked: “Do you think there is something wrong with the Sophotechs? We are Manorials, father! We let Rhadamanthus control our finances… — John C. Wright Parenting Copy Share Image
“She said, “That was why we attacked Milky Way. Your Throne would have formed a disorganized and uncoordinated mentality. By the time… — John C. Wright Milky way Copy Share Image
“(...) The floor itself was inscribed with a mosaic in the data-pattern mode, representing the entire body of the Curia case law.… — John C. Wright Real life Copy Share Image
“Imagine the same scene in HAMLET if Pullman had written it. Hamlet, using a mystic pearl, places the poison in the cup… — John C. Wright Hamlet Copy Share Image
“Any naturally self-aware self-defining entity capable of independent moral judgment is a human.” Eveningstar said, “Entities not yet self-aware, but who, in… — John C. Wright Age of reason Copy Share Image
“Gil said to Elfine, “I cannot make you an American if that is what you are asking. There is an ordeal all… — John C. Wright Ordeal Copy Share Image
“They say Cat was the last of all to leave Eden and was less afraid of the Seraphim than Lucifer, and for… — John C. Wright Cats Copy Share Image
A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A… — John C. Wright Challenges Copy Share Image
“She said, “Look me right in the eye, and tell me you don’t love me, and I’ll go.” He stared at her.… — John C. Wright Funny Copy Share Image
Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good… — John C. Wright Age Copy Share Image
“And therefore a giant hammer of pure stupidity lashed out of the screen and felled me again. I lay mewling, clutching my… — John C. Wright Movies Copy Share Image
“The version of you who forgot his love, a creature more lithotroph than human, failed to pull the trigger, but died on… — John C. Wright Love Copy Share Image
