Madness Quotes by Philip K. Dick

15 Madness quotes by Philip K. Dick

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Philip K. Dick constantly questioned what is real. In fifteen excerpts he intertwines madness with the fragility of perception, delivering a sci‑fi flavored meditation on how the mind can both create and betray.

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When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

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“... the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.”

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Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

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“Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts…”

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Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

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“Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.”

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This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

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Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

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The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts.…

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“Madness, he thought. The ultimate horror for our paranoid culture: vicious unseen mechanical entities that flit at the edges of our vision,…

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“The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than the razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule…

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“Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same?…

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Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but…

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Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long…

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For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

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The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems -…

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