Psychology Quotes by Philip K. Dick

12 Psychology quotes by Philip K. Dick

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Philip K. Dick’s imagination constantly questions what’s real and what’s imagined. In this dozen excerpts you’ll see his distinctive blend of sci‑fi wonder and deep psychological curiosity.

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Reality denied comes back to haunt.

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The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

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“To save one life, Mr Tagomi had to take two. The logical, balanced mind cannot make sense of that”

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There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view ... it's…

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“It's all a big racket; they're playing it on themselves. I mean, a gun goes through a famous battle, like the Meuse-Argonne,…

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“We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one…

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So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds,…

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“In his article, Bogen concluded: “I believe [with Wigan] that each of us has two minds in one person. There is a…

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“The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one — in this…

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“Metal is from the earth, he thought as he scrutinized. From below: from that realm which is the lowest, the most dense.…

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“Perhaps this is the bottom line to mental illness: incomprehensible events occur; your life becomes a bin for hoax-like fluctuations of what…

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“It is the tendency of the so-called primitive mind to animate its environment. Modern depth psychology has requested us for years to…

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So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot…

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Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that…

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“That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.”

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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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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world…

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Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of…

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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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