The Philip K. Dick Megapack Quotes

“Those who take lives will lose their own. Those who kill, will die. But he who gives his own life away will live again!”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“But before we could continue the war, it was necessary to analyze it to determine what its purpose was. We did this, and we found that it had no purpose, except, perhaps, in terms of human needs. Even this was questionable.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards,”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“The horse-shoe nail. Remember the old poem? ‘For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of the shoe the horse was lost. For want of the horse the rider was lost. For want—”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“We found that human cultures pass through phases, each culture in its own time. As the culture ages and begins to lose its objectives, conflict arises within it between those who wish to cast it off and set up a new culture-pattern, and those who wish to retain the old with as little change as possible. “At this point, a great danger appears. The conflict within threatens to engulf the society in self-war, group against group. The vital traditions may be lost—not merely altered or reformed, but completely destroyed in this period of chaos and anarchy. We have found many such examples in the history of mankind. “It is necessary for this hatred within the culture to be directed outward, toward an external group, so that the culture itself may survive its crisis. War is the result. War, to a logical mind, is absurd. But in terms of human needs, it plays a vital role. And it will continue to until Man has grown up enough so that no hatred lies within him.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“Human beings had invented war, invented and manufactured the weapons, even invented the players, the fighters, the actors of the war. But they themselves could not venture forth, could not wage it themselves.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“The moment of separation is a temporary period, a brief journey of the soul. It begins, it ends. The wanderer returns to land and race.…”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“thousand thoughts wandered loose in his head as he lay, fully awake. What”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“C-bombs destroyed most of Asia and North America back in the Twentieth Century.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“If we hadn’t invented them, the Ivans would have.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“Dick explored sociological, political and metaphysical themes in novels dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“It is very warm,” the wub said. “I understand that we are close to the jets. Atomic power. You have done many wonderful things with it—technically. Apparently, your scientific hierarchy is not equipped to solve moral, ethical—”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“What is it?”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“Waiting for their time to come. For us to lose and go away again. Where we came from.” Joe Rossi paced back and forth. “Yeah, we’ll be retreating from now on. Giving ground, instead of taking it. It’ll be like this today—losing fights, draws. Stalemates and worse.” He raised his feverish eyes toward the ceiling of the little metal housing unit, face wild with passion and misery. “But, by God, we’ll give them a run for their money. All the way back! Every inch!”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“Yeah, we’ll be retreating from now on. Giving ground, instead of taking it. It’ll be like this today—losing fights, draws. Stalemates and worse.” He raised his feverish eyes toward the ceiling of the little metal housing unit, face wild with passion and misery. “But, by God, we’ll give them a run for their money. All the way back! Every inch!”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“Bright specks that were commute ships, little eggs that carried businessmen and white-collar workers around. The huge transport tubes that shot masses of workmen to factories and labor camps from their housing units.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories

“I wish I’d become a plant earlier.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Philip K. Dick Megapack: 15 Classic Science Fiction Stories