"Upon him the contempt of three planets descended." — Philip K. Dick
"Upon him the contempt of three planets descended."
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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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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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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the…
— Carl Bernstein
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The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
— Jello Biafra
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
— Aesop
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I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love.…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
— Cesar Chavez
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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten…
— Lord Chesterfield
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
— Winston Churchill
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