Counter-Clock World Quotes

“…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“Sebastian sat silently and passively, like a chicken, listening.”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“Okay. He says there’s no death; it’s an illusion. Time is an illusion. Every instant
that comes into being never passes away. Anyhow—he says—it doesn’t really even come into being;
it was always there. The universe consists of concentric rings of reality; the greater the ring the more
it partakes of absolute reality. These concentric rings finally wind up as God; He’s the source of the
things, and they’re more real as they get nearer to him. It’s the principle of emanation, I guess. Evil is
simply a lesser reality, a ring farther from Him. It’s the lack of absolute reality, not the presence of an
evil deity. So there’s no dualism, no evil, no satan. Evil is an illusion like decay.”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“Most of it has probably gone into erad by now, but they may have a few terminal typescript manuscripts.”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“Religion, Sebastian thought wearily. More ins and outs, more angles, than ordinary commerce.”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“So then when they rise and tend to be, the more quickly they grow that they may be, so much the more they haste not to he. —St. Augustine”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“This bowl of milk, the pitch on yonder jar, are strange and far-bound travelers come from far.”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“This is a snowflake that was once a flame—the flame was once the fragment of a star.”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“All those centuries, regarded as a pretty and comforting fable by the world’s intellectuals, something to lull people into accepting their fate. The understanding that, as predicted, it would one day be literally true, that it was not a myth—”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“Only in a perfect flight from nothingness is Being to be found in all its purity. —St. Bonaventura”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“We even have prepared his hokey thesis on psychosomatic factors in death by meteor-strike;”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“Okay, he said to himself. Here goes.”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“You and I, when we argue, are made in each other. For when I understand what you understand, I become your understanding, and am made in you, in a certain ineffable way. —Erigena”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“Place there is none; we go backward and forward, and there is no place. —St. Augustine”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World

“Hi, Officer,” R. C. greeted him,”
― Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World