We should take mothers in high seas and drown them there, they are as poisonous as lead in the air. Philip K. Dick More Quotes by Philip K. Dick More Quotes From Philip K. Dick 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 reallossmemories If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. Philip K. Dick optimisticinspirationallife Reality denied comes back to haunt. Philip K. Dick deniedpsychologyreality My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression. Philip K. Dick schedulesselftoday The problem with introspection is that it has no end. Philip K. Dick problemmeditationends 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 childhoodeyeknowing So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own. Philip K. Dick realmindbook Whom the gods notice they destroy. Philip K. Dick Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn’t be alone. It’s killing you; it’s undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people. Philip K. Dick killinghatepeople Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it. Philip K. Dick aspectshouldbears Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. Philip K. Dick good-nightinsomniadepression 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 realviewstwo We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing. Philip K. Dick informationmessagesfacts The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. Philip K. Dick teethdoeinsanity How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish. Philip K. Dick foolishsleep 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 takenidolsgiving Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated. Philip K. Dick empathymeatsuccessful The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking. Philip K. Dick learninghumorouseducation Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools. Philip K. Dick philosopherfoolmen Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then. Philip K. Dick strangelinksreality
