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Philip K Dick Quotes

Life... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything Picture Quote #1

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well Picture Quote #1

No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn’t become a crocodile Picture Quote #1

Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our Earthly situation? Picture Quote #1

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate Picture Quote #1

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense Picture Quote #1

The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give Picture Quote #1

There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language Picture Quote #1

Basically, Sherri’s idea had to do with bringing Fat’s mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank Picture Quote #1

I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you’re lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first Picture Quote #1

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That’s closer to it. The artistic life without the talent Picture Quote #1

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque Picture Quote #1

We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart Picture Quote #1

Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person’s eyes maybe died back in childhood Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I love you,’ Rachael said. ‘If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I’d score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test Picture Quote #1

The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real Picture Quote #1

The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne’s story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it Picture Quote #1

You’re killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to Picture Quote #1

Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back Picture Quote #1

Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit Picture Quote #1

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans Picture Quote #1

Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It’s a big business, I am told Picture Quote #1

We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, ‘What is real?’ Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific Picture Quote #1

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Life... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything (Philip K Dick Quotes) Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well (Philip K Dick Quotes) No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn’t become a crocodile (Philip K Dick Quotes) Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our Earthly situation? (Philip K Dick Quotes) Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate (Philip K Dick Quotes) It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense (Philip K Dick Quotes) The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give (Philip K Dick Quotes) There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language (Philip K Dick Quotes) Basically, Sherri’s idea had to do with bringing Fat’s mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank (Philip K Dick Quotes) I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you (Philip K Dick Quotes) 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 Quotes) There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you’re lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first (Philip K Dick Quotes) But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That’s closer to it. The artistic life without the talent (Philip K Dick Quotes) The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque (Philip K Dick Quotes) We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts from the full-life world, elements of which have become for us invading but agreeable splinters of a substance that pulsates like a former heart (Philip K Dick Quotes) Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person’s eyes maybe died back in childhood (Philip K Dick Quotes) 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 Quotes) I love you,’ Rachael said. ‘If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I’d score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test (Philip K Dick Quotes) The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real (Philip K Dick Quotes) The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne’s story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band (Philip K Dick Quotes) 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 Quotes) Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. (Philip K Dick Quotes) You’re killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to. (Philip K Dick Quotes) Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back (Philip K Dick Quotes) Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit (Philip K Dick Quotes) Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. (Philip K Dick Quotes) Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It’s a big business, I am told. (Philip K Dick Quotes) We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, ‘What is real?’ Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. (Philip K Dick Quotes) 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 Quotes) When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific. (Philip K Dick Quotes)

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