“The chair had four arm rests, because that’s what happens when someone has four arms. Leading” — John C. Wright Chair Copy Share Image
I did not call for the extermination of people, but of ideas. — John C. Wright Extermination Copy Share Image
“Vows are powerful things," he said. "They set things in motion.” — John C. Wright Vows Copy Share Image
“I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person” — John C. Wright Cool Copy Share Image
A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion. — John C. Wright Emotion 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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 Am Copy Share Image
“Beyond this, to speak to the river and ask it why it runs, or to the sunshine and inquire of its cheer,… — John C. Wright Angel 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
“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
“ ... 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
“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
“(...) 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
“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
“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 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 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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
