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Philip K. Dick Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american writer Philip K. Dick on topics like reality, people, science

  • It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

    — Philip K. Dick on insanity
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  • Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

    — Philip K. Dick on reality
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  • Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

    — Philip K. Dick on reality
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  • The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.

    I you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

    — Philip K. Dick on words
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  • Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

    — Philip K. Dick on drugs
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  • I mean, after all; you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's a sort of bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?

    — Philip K. Dick on mankind
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  • And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?

    — Philip K. Dick on vanity
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  • 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 on existentialism
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  • Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.

    — Philip K. Dick on discourse
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  • The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.

    If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

    — Philip K. Dick on basic
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  • I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine

    — Philip K. Dick on science
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  • Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.

    We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

    — Philip K. Dick on science
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  • About Philip K. Dick

    Name Philip K. Dick
    Quotes 20 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Writer
    Birthday October 16
    About Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He briefly attended the University of California, but dropped out before completing any classes. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W.
    Top topics reality, people, science, basic, fiction
  • The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

    — Philip K. Dick on rational
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  • A man is an angel that has gone deranged.

    — Philip K. Dick on absurd
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  • If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!

    — Philip K. Dick on killing
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  • Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

    — Philip K. Dick on solve
    0
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  • I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards. Okay, so I should revise my standards; I'm out of step. I should yield to reality. I have never yielded to reality. That's what SF is all about. If you wish to yield to reality, go read Philip Roth; read the New York literary establishment mainstream bestselling writers

    — Philip K. Dick on authors
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  • 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. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.

    — Philip K. Dick on identity
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  • This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people;

    they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

    — Philip K. Dick on calmly
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  • 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 on education
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