Constructs Quote by Philip K. Dick

“Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.” quote by Philip K. Dick — Download Open image

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

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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 named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of…

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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 something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad. A man,…

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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 - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath…

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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 language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory. The problem is that the structure of any language cannot grasp the nature of unity consciousness,…

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Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

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Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself.…

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