"The person I am now, compared with the……" — Philip K. Dick
"The person I am now, compared with the person in the dream, has been baffled and defeated and only supposes he enjoys a full life. In the dreams, I see what a full life really consists of, and it is not what I really have."
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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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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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It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are…
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Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday…
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The fashion pages have always baffled me. In my opinion, the articles appear to be full of gobbledygook as to…
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A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists…
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The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices,…
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The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a…
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[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and…
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now;…
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