"Insanity - to have to construct a picture……" — Philip K. Dick
"Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others."
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Philip K. Dick
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181 Quotes by Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick has 181 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.
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More Construct Quotes
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
— Paul Auster
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the…
— Bill Bryson
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I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
— John Burns
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Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you…
— Luigi Pirandello
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The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To…
— Pete Wilson
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price…
— Epictetus
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Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest,…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of…
— Cesar Chavez
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When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to…
— Ronald Reagan
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model…
— John von Neumann
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