Existential Quote by Philip K. Dick Download Open image ““We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.”” — Philip K. Dick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Existential Truth
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“Maybe the natural world wasn't so jaw-droppingly horrible, appaling, nasty, vile. Sometimes nature could be quite sweet, really, as delicate as a confused and… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“(...) we must learn to accept that all creatures, however fearsome they may be, are of divine origin.” — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“He then represented to himself the human species, as it really is, as a parcel of insects devouring one another on a little atom… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Treat all people-even the most unsightly beetles-as though they were angels sent from heaven.” — Mawi Asgedom Copy Share Image
“Be respectful of the small insects, birds and animal people who accompany you. Ask their forgiveness for the harm we humans have brought down… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
“A worthwhile day, I had killed two spiders, I had upset the balance of nature - now we would all be eaten up by… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“...evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.” — Marlene Van Niekerk 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
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The argument that won the Brexit campaign is the one that said take back control... which is another way of saying we want to… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
“When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at… — Francis Ponge Copy Share Image
We have an existential crisis, which is the climate crisis. Canada is one of the laggards in the industrialized world. Our record is terrible. — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half. — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it,… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
