Thought Quotes by Philip K. Dick

10 Thought quotes by Philip K. Dick

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Dick often turned thinking into a playground for reality‑bending ideas. Ten short lines give a flavor of his uncanny mental landscapes.

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“You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all.”

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“Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.”

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Everything is true Everything anybody has ever thought

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Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.

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“Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence of death. He perceived…

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“Death is very close, he thought. When you think in this manner. I can feel it, he decided. How near I am.…

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Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed…

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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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We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too…

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“We peep out, but what do we see, really? Mirror reflections of our own selves, our bloodless, feeble countenances, devoted to nothing…

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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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The church of my choice is the free, open world.

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“I see,' Rick said. He felt numb. Completely. Throughout his entire body.”

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“What is identity? he asked himself. Where does the act end? Nobody knows.”

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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…

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What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being…

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“A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and…

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“When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?”

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My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

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