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91,728. We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall. (Trouble & Self & Selfishness & Solipsism) Joko Beck
107,616. The greatest gift of science is that it teaches us we need to go beyond ourselves. (Science & Solipsism) Lawrence Krauss, with Richard Dawkins, Australian National University June 2017
34,702. An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality. (King & Life’s Like That & Self & Solipsism) Martin Luther King junior
596. The final insult that religion delivers to us, the final poison it injects into our system, it appeals both to our meanness, our self-centredness and our solipsism and to our masochism. In order words it’s sadomasochistic. (Religion & Solipsism & Sadomasochism) Christopher Hitchens v Alister McGrath, Georgetown University Washington 2007
597. Beware of solipsism ... Don’t ever think you are the centre of the world. Be very careful of assuming that you are the object of a divine design. That there’s something special just about being you. (Religion & Solipsism) Christopher Hitchens, Collisions: Christopher Hitchens v Douglas Wilson
107,752. You have to imagine that all this mass extinction and death and randomness is the will of a being … and all of this should happen so that one very imperfect race of evolved primates should have the opportunity to become Christians … that all of that was done with us in view – it’s a curious kind of solipsism; it’s a curious kind of self-centredness … there’s a certain arrogance to this assumption … the tremendous wastefulness of it, the tremendous cruelty of it, the tremendous caprice of it, the tremendous tinkering and incompetence of it - never mind, at least we’re here and we can be people of faith. (Solipsism & Plan & God & Christianity) Christopher Hitchens
109,140. So if you think that all this is going on in these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem. Christopher Hitchens
1,028. We create the idea of an agency – that God takes an interest in us, and is pulling strings in our lives. (Faith & Belief & God & Solipsism) Derren Brown: Fear and Faith, Channel 4 2012
3,156. There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. (Space & Humanity & Solipsism & Conceit) Carl Sagan, Time magazine 9 January 1995, re Pale Blue Dot image taken by Voyager 1 spacecraft 6 billion kilometres from Earth 1990
18,796. I thought we made some progress on your Narcicism. (Gangs US: New Jersey & Mafia & Mafia: US & Solipsism) The Sopranos: Meadowlands s1e4 ***** starring James Gandolfini & Lorriane Bracco & Edie Falco & Michael Imperioli & Dominic Chianese & Steven van Zandt & Tony Sirico & Robert Iler et al, Dr Melfi to Tony
88,843. I am my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein
88,844. 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 M Banks, The Algebraist
107,586. Bertram Russell got a letter from a lady who said, Dear Lord Russell, I’m so delighted to hear you are a solipsist; there are so few of us around these days. Richard Dawkins, Waking Up With Sam Harris #57: An Evening With Sam Harris & Richard Dawkins, Los Angeles, Youtube 1.36.57