Philip K. Dick Quotes
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Philip K. Dick Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Hell,' I said, 'love is an American cult. We take it too seriously; it's practically a national religion.
Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.
Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?"
"Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.
"Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.
Maybe there was once a human who looked like you, and somewhere along the line you killed him and took his place. And your superiors don't know.
Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?
I am like a gray thing, he thought. Bustling along with the currents of air that tumble me, that roll me, like a gray puffball, on and on.
It's all on the surface. Advantage of wealth and power makes this available to them, but it's ersatz as the day is long.
Objective reality is a synthetic construct, dealing with a hypothetical universalization of a multitude of subjective realities.
Replicants are like any other machine - they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.
That man indeed lives in a zone where no multiplicity can distress him and which is nevertheless the most active workshop of universal fulfillment.
The little man with beard and glasses leaped up. 'There's nobody here has anything to do with governments! We're all good people!
I resemble that worm which crawls through dust,
Lives in the dust, eats dust
Until a passerby's foot crushes it.
Lives in the dust, eats dust
Until a passerby's foot crushes it.
She was a redhead and he liked redheads; they were either outrageously ugly or almost supernaturally attractive.
In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.
It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense
Horselover Fat's nervous breakdown began the day he got the phone call from Gloria asking if he had any Nembutals.
Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.
Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.
We are all insects," he said to Miss Ephreikian. "Groping toward something terrible or divine. Do you not agree?
If I'm an andy," Phil Resch said, "and you kill me, you can have my squirrel. Here; I'll write it out, willing it to you.
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things ... I must be scientific.
How long that part of the cycle had lasted he did not now know; nothing had happened, generally, so it had been measureless.
It requires the greatest kind of wisdom, she thought, to know when to apply injustice. How can justice fall victim, even, to what is right?
It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.
Does she make the heavens fall?" "Yes, she pulls down everything." Molinari nodded. "It's a psionic talent she has ... it's called being a woman.
That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
This is a mournful discovery.
1)Those who agree with you are insane
2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.
1)Those who agree with you are insane
2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.
Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.
Back to Germany," one of the cops said, surveying him. "I'm an American," Frank Frink said. "You're a Jew," the cop said.
I think," Dr. Stone said, "that when you tried to kill yourself you got in touch with reality for the first time.
Thrifty, to think not only of eating the people you did not like, but eating them out of their own skull. The
How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.
Before they came here I could stand it, being alone in the building. But now it's changed ... You can't go from people to nonpeople.
Typical of their mania for the trivial, their legalistic fascination with documents, proclamations, ads.
Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.
What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear ... This was not a human being at all.