30 Quotes About Solipsism

He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate perceptions as being in the present into doubt. And thus, he couldn’t—beyond a hint of skepticism—say that he truly existed right now and in this moment, but instead it seemed more rational to assume that he simply existed and nothing more.

If you can't prove that anything exists outside you own mind, is it all right to go on believing in the external world anyway?

All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.

Mme Therbouche: Ah oui, qu’avez-vous fait jusqu’à présent pour la morale ?Diderot: (sans vergogne). Mais... j’ai offert mon exemple.

The only reason this one feels special is because it's happening to you

His [de Sade's] achievement is that before the Romantic movement had been launched, he succeeded in making solipsism look like omniscience.

After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, “I refute it thus.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure?Answer: Of himself.Well, so I will talk about myself.

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.