“What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?' — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I think," Dr. Stone said, "that when you tried to kill yourself you got in touch with reality for the first time.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think this planet is under a spell," Elias said. "We are asleep or in a trance, and something causes us… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“He saw two stars collapse against one another and a nova form; it flared up and then, as he watched, it began… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head? — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“David Hume, the greatest skeptic of them all, once remarked that after a gathering of skeptics met to proclaim the veracity of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But something about it struck him… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“That is not how you do it; you do not solve one problem with another, greater problem.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems -… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
