# Quote — Iain M. Banks, Transition

> Now, our tutor pointed out that there was a weakness in the hard-line or extreme solipsist’s position which came down to the question why, if they were all that existed, they bothered to deceive themselves so? Why did it appear to the solipsistic entity that there was an external reality in the first place, and, more to the point, why this one specifically? Why did the solipsist appear to be constrained in any way by that supposedly physically non-existent and therefore utterly pliable reality?

- Author: [Iain M. Banks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks.md)
- Book: [Transition](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/transition.md)
- Page: 243
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks#Transition_(2009)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/transition/now-our-tutor

## More from this book

> It’s even more important to prosecute police who’ve broken the law than it is to prosecute anybody else, because otherwise nobody trusts the police.

p. 266 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/transition/its-even-more.md)

> I only tell them that because that’s what they like to hear, what they want to hear. That’s one of the lessons I’ve learned, isn’t it? You can go a long way just telling people what they want to hear. Of course, you got to be careful, and you got to choose the right people, but still, know that I mean?

p. 16 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/transition/i-only-tell.md)

> One of the wisest things anybody ever said to me was that if all you ever care about is money, money is all that will ever care for you.

p. 65 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/transition/one-of-the.md)