"Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger……" — Philip K. Dick

"Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure."

— Philip K. Dick

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181 Quotes by Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick has 181 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which…
Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power.…
The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the…
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…
Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, 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…
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own…
In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out…
Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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