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"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
—
Philip K. Dick
tags:
insanity
,
madness
,
pkd
,
reality
976 people liked it
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. "
—
Philip K. Dick
tags:
pkd
147 people liked it
"The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give."
—
Philip K. Dick
74 people liked it
"No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up."
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Philip K. Dick
(
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
)
33 people liked it
"My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression."
—
Philip K. Dick
(
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
)
28 people liked it
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them."
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Philip K. Dick
31 people liked it
"This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance."
—
Philip K. Dick
18 people liked it
"Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit."
—
Philip K. Dick
22 people liked it
"If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others."
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Philip K. Dick
23 people liked it
"Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night."
—
Philip K. Dick
tags:
advice
,
practicality
,
problem
15 people liked it
"How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear."
—
Philip K. Dick
(
A Scanner Darkly
)
8 people liked it
"Fish cannot carry guns"
—
Philip K. Dick
(
VALIS
)
6 people liked it
"There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me.'"
—
Philip K. Dick
8 people liked it
"If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!"
—
Philip K. Dick
11 people liked it
"Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful."
—
Philip K. Dick
6 people liked it
"I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile."
—
Philip K. Dick
(
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
)
6 people liked it
"The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. "
—
Philip K. Dick
(
VALIS
)
4 people liked it
"The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real."
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Philip K. Dick
8 people liked it
"The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them."
—
Philip K. Dick
(
VALIS
)
tags:
death
,
haunting
,
madness
,
regret
6 people liked it
"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe."
—
Philip K. Dick
(
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
)
3 people liked it
"Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?
"
—
Philip K. Dick
(
The Man Who Japed
)
2 people liked it
"Emigrate or Degenerate"
—
Philip K. Dick
(
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
)
2 people liked it
"There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. "
—
Philip K. Dick
(
VALIS
)
5 people liked it
"I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong."
—
Philip K. Dick
(
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
)
3 people liked it
"In a one-party system there is always a landslide."
—
Philip K. Dick
(
Radio Free Albemuth
)
3 people liked it
"How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish."
—
Philip K. Dick
(
Radio Free Albemuth
)
5 people liked it
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
"
—
Philip K. Dick
5 people liked it
"Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked."
—
Philip K. Dick
tags:
valis
4 people liked it
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