It's not what happened but how it is told. Philip K. Dick More Quotes by Philip K. Dick More Quotes From Philip K. Dick 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 truthlittlesmen It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen. Philip K. Dick midstpossibilitytragedy Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit. Philip K. Dick agreenewspeople …we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people. Philip K. Dick selflyingpeople When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet. Philip K. Dick crazyquiet Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish. Philip K. Dick stimulusstatistics 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 principlessimplefacts For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them. Philip K. Dick sentencesseriespersons Activity does not necessarily mean life. Philip K. Dick doelifemean God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God. Philip K. Dick floatingspaceworld 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 weedbeerwind There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen in human life in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. That we must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public. Philip K. Dick modern-lifeimportantsecret Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate. Philip K. Dick monkdoemean Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great. Philip K. Dick I'm not much but I'm all I have. Philip K. Dick optimismoptimisticresponsibility Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Philip K. Dick becominginsaneknows Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home. Philip K. Dick wishdoehome 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 solitudedifferentunique The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow. Philip K. Dick shadowkindfear (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 confusionpridemen
