When I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe, Philip K. Dick More Quotes by Philip K. Dick More Quotes From Philip K. Dick This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power. Philip K. Dick paranoia insane discovery Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying. Philip K. Dick tomorrow dying We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious. Philip K. Dick cognition effort world I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory. Philip K. Dick machines hate ideas No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. Philip K. Dick chaos fate structure So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them. Philip K. Dick dying white heart The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound. The creature stood on a bridge and no one else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Cut off by - or despite - its outcry. Philip K. Dick echoes cutting men Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure. Philip K. Dick obscure body men People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my writing, that from the corpus of my work I can be absolutely and precisely inferred. This is true. Philip K. Dick dream writing people Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom. Philip K. Dick statistics trying sometimes 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 tragedy mean thinking Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's happening?" and they say, "I got a better offer someplace else," and there they go, out of your life forever, and after that until you're dead you're carrying around this huge hunk of love with no one to give it to. And if you do find someone to give it to, the same thing happens all over. Philip K. Dick forever home giving 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 traps safety priests In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail. Philip K. Dick innocent-man jail men He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person. Philip K. Dick deranged persons facts No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile. Philip K. Dick matter water long I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile. Philip K. Dick like-her breasts watches Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back. Philip K. Dick hate fear What constitutes the authentic human being? Philip K. Dick human-beings humans It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours. Philip K. Dick psychosis dream way
