The quotations of

Iain Banks

Scottish writer

1954–2013

8 quotes, most often on Thinking.

One should never mistake pattern…for meaning.
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013), Chapter 7 (p. 127)
- Thinking
Faith is the eye that sees nothing and rejoices in it.
Feersum Endjinn (1994), Chapter 9, Section 2 (p. 265)
- Anti-Religion
- Faith
Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.
The State of the Art (1991), “State of the Art” (p. 128)
- Beauty
Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
The State of the Art (1991), “Piece” (p. 75)
- Thinking
The truth is the truth. You tell it even when it hurts or it loses value even when it doesn’t.
The Hydrogen Sonata (2013), Chapter 23 (p. 505)
- Truth & Lies
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.
Transition (2009), Chapter 4 (p. 65)
- Money
Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.
Transition (2009), Chapter 13 (p. 326)
- Clever Jabs
- Politics
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.
The Algebraist (2004), Chapter 5, “Conditions of Passage” (p. 298)
- Philosophy

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