Solipsism Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image “When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Solipsism
The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all… — Origen Copy Share Image
When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black. — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The stumbling block will turn out to be the traditional one for students of consciousness: the flashlight is incapable of shining on itself, so… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Beware of solipsism Funny word. Sounds like it means "love of melons" or something. I looked it up. It means believing that "the self… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“English: "The manner of clouding our past interiority is similar to the manner of clouding the interiority of others." Česky: „Způsob zamlžení našeho minulého… — Sebastián Wortys Copy Share Image
Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not. — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O que parece haver de desprezo entre homem e homem, de indiferente que permite que se mate gente sem que se sinta que se… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
