Philip K. Dick Quotes

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• No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which…
• Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known…
• The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught…
• Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,
• The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is…
• Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.
• Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
• That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
• A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is…
• 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…
• In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us…
• Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.
• Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.
• I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.
• It's not what happened but how it is told.
• Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.
• How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?
• Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?
• Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically…
• It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.

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