"We do not have an ideal world, such……" — Philip K. Dick
"We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious."
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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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There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its…
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All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or…
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While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will…
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The issue Fodor writes about is central to the psychology of perception, cognition, and action. It is the central issue…
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The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes…
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Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.
— Charlie Munger
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I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information — and especially of stressful information…
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The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition—thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking…
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Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information
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Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now…
— Samael Aun Weor
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The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy,…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can…
— Elliot W. Eisner
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