“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
A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion. — John C. Wright Emotion Copy Share Image
“The chair had four arm rests, because that’s what happens when someone has four arms. Leading” — 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“(...) You Sophotechs are smarter than I am; why did you let me do such a foolish thing?” “We answer every question… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“Andromeda said, “I see that you understand the paradox involved. These are axiomatic beliefs. If life is finite, there can be no… — John C. Wright Faith Copy Share Image
“[After a period of separation, Phaeton and Daphne are cuddling.] Diomedes, meanwhile, was leaning to look behind Helion, staring with open fascination… — John C. Wright Cuddling Copy Share Image
“All medieval and classic cultures of the ancient world, including those on which Tolkien modeled his elves, routinely exposed their young and… — John C. Wright Movies Copy Share Image
“Here in this world, justice loses, and beauty is weak, and truth is shouted down, and everything goes wrong. But we know,… — John C. Wright Beauty Copy Share Image
“The relationship between the Sophotechs and the men as depicted in that tale made no sense. How could they be hostile to… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
“Just then, just when I thought I would be free from the repeated blows to my tender head of the Stupidity Hammer,… — John C. Wright Movies Copy Share Image
“You were burning in the middle of the worst solar storm our records can remember. (...) Everyone else fled. All your companions… — John C. Wright Approaching death 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
“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
“He sat up. He was naked as a jaybird, but someone had thoughtfully provided a flint-napped dagger hilted in rawhide, as well… — John C. Wright Psychology Copy Share Image
“I am not going to call the alien brain I am stuck inside of by the name I am totally buggered—this damnified… — John C. Wright Psychology Copy Share Image
“We are men born in a land of eternal darkness. We grope where we cannot see clearly. Why mistrust what ancient books… — John C. Wright Books 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
“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
![“[After a period of separation, Phaeton and Daphne are cuddling.] Diomedes, meanwhile, was leaning to look behind Helion, staring with open fascination at the display Phaethon and Daphne made. “I have not seen non-parthenogenic bioforms before. Are they going to copulate?” Atkins and Helion looked…” quote by John C. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c97/john-c-wright-11300_cuddling_after-a-period-of-separation-phaeton-and_781840.jpg)
