"Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited……" — Philip K. Dick
"Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated."
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181 Quotes by Philip K. Dick
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No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which…
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Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power.…
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The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the…
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Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,
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The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does…
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Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang…
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Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
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That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
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A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you…
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own…
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In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out…
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Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.
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