quotes about Solipsism

“Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.”

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”

“Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.”

“Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.”

“The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.”

Source : Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.2

“I'm a big believer in the system, but I just don't think we follow our own system and laws very well. I think ultimately we'll see the system collapse. Because no system has ever stayed around forever.”

“I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.”

“Our state's strategy on methamphetamine, and any other issue, is going to be a moving target.”

“For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.”

“Map reconciles himself to almost any event, however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary alone that he rebels against. There is a moral idea associated with this feeling; for the extraordinary appears to be something like an injustice of heaven.”