How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later Quotes

“What I am saying is this: There is internal evidence in at least one of my novels that another reality, an unchanging one, exactly as Parmenides and Plato suspected, underlies the visible phenomenal world of change, and somehow, in some way, perhaps to our surprise, we can cut through to it. Or rather, a mysterious Spirit can put us in touch with it, if it wishes us to see this permanent other landscape. Time passes, thousands of years pass, but at the same instant that we see this contemporary world, the ancient world, the world of the Bible, is concealed beneath it, still. there and still real. Eternally so.”
― Philip K. Dick, How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

“The summation of much pre-Socratic theology and philosophy can be stated as follows: The kosmos is not as it appears to be, and what it probably is, at its deepest level, is exactly that which the human being is at his deepest level — call it mind or soul, it is something unitary which lives and thinks, and only appears to be plural and material.”
― Philip K. Dick, How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

“Lo strumento fondamentale per la manipolazione della realtà è la manipolazione delle parole. Se si è in grado di controllare il significato delle parole, si possono controllare coloro che devono usarle. George Orwell lo ha reso chiaro nel suo romanzo 1984. Ma un altro modo per controllare le menti delle persone è controllare le loro percezioni. Se riesci a far vedere loro il mondo come lo vedi tu, loro penseranno come pensi tu. La comprensione segue la percezione.”
― Philip K. Dick, How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later