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 More Quotes by Philip K. Dick More Quotes From Philip K. Dick 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 childish-things children Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain? Philip K. Dick purpose brain heart Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical. Philip K. Dick leader lying thinking It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow. Philip K. Dick goes-on add trying Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life. Philip K. Dick motto scene 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 different evil The inanity of her remark infuriated him. 'Good grief don't you understand Janet? At this point I'm thoroughly delusional. I'm as mentally ill as it's possible to be. It's incredible that I can communicate with you at all. It's a credit to my ego-strength that I'm not at this point totally autistic. Philip K. Dick credit ego grief It's easy to win. Anybody can win. Philip K. Dick sunset easy winning A man is an angel that has gone deranged. Philip K. Dick angel gone men I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E. Philip K. Dick reading doubt writing Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design. Philip K. Dick errors taken thinking In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules ," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy . Philip K. Dick gunpowder law philosophy Upon him the contempt of three planets descended. Philip K. Dick contempt planets three Life in Anaheim, California, was a commercial for itself, endlessly replayed. Nothing changed; it just spread out farther and farther in the form of neon ooze. What there was always more of had been congealed into permanence long ago, as if the automatic factory that cranked out these objects had jammed in the on position. Philip K. Dick neon long-ago california Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real. Philip K. Dick parent real kids You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up. Philip K. Dick space mean book 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 gaining-power life-is order Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances. Philip K. Dick host running numbers He entered the elevator and together they moved closer to god Philip K. Dick moved elevators together The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath descended. Philip K. Dick psychosis wrath men
