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Philip K. Dick Quote: “If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Body of yin, soul of yang. Metal and fire unified. The outer and inner; microcosmos in my palm.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Even weird breed of cat like Nazi Germany comprehensible to I Ching.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Amazed, Fat said, “She’s decomposing and yet she’s still giving birth?” “Only to monsters,” Dr. Stone said.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Arnie Kott owned the only harpsichord on Mars. However, it was out of tune, and he could find no one to service it. No matter which way you cut it, there were no harpsichord tuners on Mars.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “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 Quote: “Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “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 Quote: “Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “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 Quote: “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. A portion of him turns against him and acts like another person, defeating him from inside. A man inside a man. Which is no man at all.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “He didn’t just know there would be personal computers. He knew they would crash, that the people who came to fix them would charge heavily by the hour, and be annoying, and no good, and in the end would just tell you to buy a new and more expensive machine –.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “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 Quote: “She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “We have entered a Moment when we are alone. We cannot get assistance, as before. Well, Mr. Tagomi thought, perhaps that too is good. Or can be made good. One must still try to find the Way.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It’s enough to get you down.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “They see through the here, the now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And that is fatal to life. Because eventually there will be no life; there was once only the dust particles in space, the hot hydrogen gases, nothing more, and it will come again. This is an interval, ein Augenblick. The cosmic process is hurrying on, crushing life back into granite and methane; the wheel turns for all life. It is all temporary.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “In the absence of the Batys and Pris he found himself fading out, becoming strangely like the inert television set which he had just unplugged. You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean, before they came here I could stand it, being alone in the building. But now it’s changed. You can’t go back, he thought. You can’t go from people to nonpeople.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Insanity – to have to construct a picture of one’s life, by making inquiries of others.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “We live with illusion daily, he reflected. When the first bard rattled off the first epic of a sometime battle, illusion entered our lives; the Iliad is as much a “fake” as those robant children trading postage stamps on the porch of the building. Humans have always striven to retain the past, to keep it convincing; there’s nothing wicked in that. Without it we have no continuity; we have only the moment. And, deprived of the past, the moment – the present – has little meaning, if any.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “In marriage the greatest hatred that is possible between human beings can be generated, perhaps because of the constant proximity, perhaps because once there was love. The intimacy is still there, even though the love element has disappeared. So a will to power, a struggle for domination, comes into being.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Half to himself, Fat said, “He causes things to look different so it would appear time has passed.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three-dimensional and not space time. The information fed to us we hypostatize into the phenomenal world.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “As the spring rains fall, soaking in them, on the roof, is a child’s rag ball.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me – into us – clearly or darkly?”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “We are all insects,” he said to Miss Ephreikian. “Groping toward something terrible or divine. Do you not agree?”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “To inspire himself, he lit up a marijuana cigarette, excellent Land-O-Smiles brand.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Mors certa, vita incerta, as Mr. Sloat occasionally declared. Isidore, although he had heard the expression a number of times, retained only a dim notion as to its meaning. After all, if a chickenhead could fathom Latin he would cease to be a chickenhead.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Love isn’t just wanting another person the way you want to own an object you see in a store. That’s just desire. You want to have it around, take it home and set it up somewhere in the apartment like a lamp.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “In this particular lifestyle the motto is “Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,” but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Death makes me mad. Human and animal suffering make me mad; whenever one of my cats dies I curse God and I mean it; I feel fury at him. I’d like to get him here where I could interrogate him, tell him that I think the world is screwed up, that man didn’t sin and fall but was pushed – which is bad enough – but was then sold the lie that he is basically sinful, which I know he is not.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “It’s the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “That goat,” Rachael said. “You love the goat more than me. More than you love your wife, probably. First the goat, then your wife, then last of all – ” She laughed merrily. “What can you do but laugh?”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Dio promette la vita eterna” disse Eldritch. “Io posso fare di meglio; posso metterla in commercio.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Kevin is right about his cat. It’s all there in his dead cat. The Great Judge can’t answer Kevin: ‘Why did my cat die?’ Answer: ‘Damned if I know.’ There is no answer; there is only a dead animal that just wanted to cross the street. We’re all animals that want to cross the street only something mows us down half-way across that we never saw.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “This is a cardboard universe, and if you lean too long or too heavily against it, you fall through.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “So I left the TV sound off and I sat down at my mood organ and I experimented. And I finally found a setting for despair.” Her dark, pert face showed satisfaction, as if she had achieved something of worth. “So I put it on my schedule for twice a month; I think that’s a reasonable amount of time to feel hopeless about everything, about staying here on Earth after everybody who’s small has emigrated, don’t you think?”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It’s not much, but it’s always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn’t know I exist.”
Philip K. Dick Quote: “Joe Chip said, ‘I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”
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