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Top 10 Martin Riker Quotes (2025 Update)

Martin Riker Quote: “I’d been caught up in myself, my grand entrance to humanity. But humanity was just a bunch of people I didn’t know standing on the far side of a pool, and none of them seemed very impressed.”

1. “I’d been caught up in myself, my grand entrance to humanity. But humanity was just a bunch of people I didn’t know standing on the far side of a pool, and none of them seemed very impressed.”

— Martin Riker

Martin Riker Quote: “Ignorance doesn’t make you good at anything. You don’t free yourself by unlearning. You have to learn past all you’ve learned.”

2. “Ignorance doesn’t make you good at anything. You don’t free yourself by unlearning. You have to learn past all you’ve learned.”

— Martin Riker

Martin Riker Quote: “Plato, who was a total elitist, by the way, and hated democracy, because he thought average people were too dumb to make their own decisions and ought to be governed by philosophers, because philosophers alone understand “essential truths.” Apparently he never met anyone from our philosophy department.”

3. “Plato, who was a total elitist, by the way, and hated democracy, because he thought average people were too dumb to make their own decisions and ought to be governed by philosophers, because philosophers alone understand “essential truths.” Apparently he never met anyone from our philosophy department.”

— Martin Riker

Martin Riker Quote: “Words shaped the world economy and the human body, both.”

4. “Words shaped the world economy and the human body, both.”

— Martin Riker

Martin Riker Quote: “There was the pessimism of the revolutionaries, as Keynes called it, the worry of those who thought the world so doomed that the only hope was to turn everything upside down. Then there was the pessimism of the reactionaries, those who thought the world so doomed that any sort of change at all would send civilization reeling into the abyss.”

5. “There was the pessimism of the revolutionaries, as Keynes called it, the worry of those who thought the world so doomed that the only hope was to turn everything upside down. Then there was the pessimism of the reactionaries, those who thought the world so doomed that any sort of change at all would send civilization reeling into the abyss.”

— Martin Riker

Martin Riker Quote: “You enjoy speaking your ideas but you also hate it, and finally you hate it more than you enjoy it. Hearing yourself form words and project them toward people, who will probably not care much anyway. Who might at best watch curiously as your words sail past them and bounce off the back wall.”

6. “You enjoy speaking your ideas but you also hate it, and finally you hate it more than you enjoy it. Hearing yourself form words and project them toward people, who will probably not care much anyway. Who might at best watch curiously as your words sail past them and bounce off the back wall.”

— Martin Riker

Martin Riker Quote: “This self was not really you, it didn’t sufficiently encompass what you care about or what you want to say. Because at the end of the day, you are uniquely ill-equipped to convey to the world what you care about or what you want to say.”

7. “This self was not really you, it didn’t sufficiently encompass what you care about or what you want to say. Because at the end of the day, you are uniquely ill-equipped to convey to the world what you care about or what you want to say.”

— Martin Riker

Martin Riker Quote: “Perhaps the real revelation is simply that life has caught up with you. All this time, when you thought you were fooling everyone, that was only because no one was paying attention. But eventually the world does pay attention, and suddenly it is you who are on trial, not the world but you. The trial you’d managed to put off for years is finally underway and you see, now, that you are not the plaintiff, as you’d always assumed, but the defendant, not the accuser but the accused.”

8. “Perhaps the real revelation is simply that life has caught up with you. All this time, when you thought you were fooling everyone, that was only because no one was paying attention. But eventually the world does pay attention, and suddenly it is you who are on trial, not the world but you. The trial you’d managed to put off for years is finally underway and you see, now, that you are not the plaintiff, as you’d always assumed, but the defendant, not the accuser but the accused.”

— Martin Riker

Martin Riker Quote: “I felt also, for the first time that evening, the pinch of my own deep loneliness, never far from me in those days, always just out past the edge of my so-called self-awareness.”

9. “I felt also, for the first time that evening, the pinch of my own deep loneliness, never far from me in those days, always just out past the edge of my so-called self-awareness.”

— Martin Riker

Martin Riker Quote: “Even an imagined togetherness beats being alone.”

10. “Even an imagined togetherness beats being alone.”

— Martin Riker

Martin Riker Quote: “Reading and writing being the only good methods I have ever found for emptying my insomnia mind, and calming it.”

11. “Reading and writing being the only good methods I have ever found for emptying my insomnia mind, and calming it.”

— Martin Riker

Martin Riker Quote: “Now the box is open, reality spills out, and there’s no way to stuff it back in. Judgment has been meted out, the first sentence handed down, first of many because once this trial gets going there is no going back. The proceedings are irreversible, the stakes existential, the accusations keep piling up, the prosecution is relentless, the prosecution never rests, the defense never rests, nobody in this whole damn place ever rests.”

12. “Now the box is open, reality spills out, and there’s no way to stuff it back in. Judgment has been meted out, the first sentence handed down, first of many because once this trial gets going there is no going back. The proceedings are irreversible, the stakes existential, the accusations keep piling up, the prosecution is relentless, the prosecution never rests, the defense never rests, nobody in this whole damn place ever rests.”

— Martin Riker

Martin Riker Quote: “But for some reason reading works, reading in particular. The mental release, the distraction, or maybe just the voice, the company.”

13. “But for some reason reading works, reading in particular. The mental release, the distraction, or maybe just the voice, the company.”

— Martin Riker

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