Philip K. Dick Quotes - Page 5

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• Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world
  unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not perceive. Even though I can't prove that, even though it isn't logical - I believe it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Believe, Unseen, World

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.258, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dying, Tomorrow

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

  Philip K. Dick

  Meaningful, Art, Men

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Eye in the Sky”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are in a maze which we built, and then we fell into, now can't get out. To make the game into something real, something more than merely an intellectual exercise, we elected to lose our exceptional faculties, to reduce us an entire level. This unfortunately, includes a loss of memory.

  Philip K. Dick

  Memories, Real, Loss

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• Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

  Philip K. Dick

  Sorry, Writing, Fiction

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.

  Philip K. Dick

  Life, Reality, Fluttering

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Ubik”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

  Philip K. Dick

  Children, Lying, Two

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

  Philip K. Dick

  Memories, Moving, Errors

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.

  Philip K. Dick

  Strength, Running, Strong

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him; we approach him through the mediating priest and attenuate and enclose him through the sacraments. It is for our own safety: to trap him within confines which render him safe.

  Philip K. Dick

  Safety, Traps, Priests

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man is an angel that has gone deranged.

  Philip K. Dick

  Angel, Men, Gone

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• The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

  Philip K. Dick

  Insanity, Insane, Empires

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Thinking, Tragedy

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Divine Invasion”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.

  Philip K. Dick

  Ideas, Twists, Odd Things

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Time Out of Joint”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• (Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

  Philip K. Dick

  Pride, Men, Confusion

  "The Man in the High Castle". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1962.

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• Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

  Philip K. Dick

  Giving Up, Lying, Believe

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Ugly, Moments

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s”

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• What constitutes the authentic human being?

  Philip K. Dick

  Humans, Human Beings

  "Philip K. Dick: Speaking with the Dead". Interview with Erik Davis, roychristopher.com. July 14th, 2003.

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• Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

  Philip K. Dick

  Moving, Errors, Car

  1977 A Scanner Darkly, author's note.

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• When I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe,
  I suffer psychotic depression.

  Philip K. Dick

  Crazy, Believe, Suffering

  Philip K. Dick, Pamela Jackson, Jonathan Lethem (2011). “The Exegesis of Philip K Dick”, p.714, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.

  Philip K. Dick

  Other Worlds, Evil, Different

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.260, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.

  Philip K. Dick

  Gun, Ideas, Giving

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• 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.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dream, Baffled, Defeated

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind

  Philip K. Dick

  Wind, Degrees, Responsible

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Body, Obscure

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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