Philip K. Dick Quotes


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 Basic 291
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. Philip K. Dick Insanity 163
Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. Philip K. Dick Reality 115
If you think this Universe is bad you should see some of the others. Philip K. Dick Irony 112
To live is to be haunted. Philip K. Dick Live 106
There is evil Its actual like cement. I cant believe it. I cant stand it. Evil is not a view ... its an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us filtering into our bodies minds hearts into the pavement itself. Philip K. Dick Evil 82
What a tragic realm this is he reflected. Those down here are prisoners and the ultimate tragedy is that they dont know it they think they are free because they have never been free and do not understand what it means. Philip K. Dick Reality 81
Tomorrow morning he decided Ill begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. Thats the initial step. Philip K. Dick Science fiction 81
There will come a time when it isnt Theyre spying on me through my phone anymore. Eventually it will be My phone is spying on me. Philip K. Dick Progress 80
The problem with introspection is that it has no end. Philip K. Dick Introspection 77
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 Education 74
Reality denied comes back to haunt. Philip K. Dick Psychology 65
A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard. Philip K. Dick Science fiction 64
I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine Philip K. Dick Science 63
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 Calmly 62
Dont try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. Philip K. Dick Depression 53
You mean old books Stories written before space travel but about space travel. How could there have been stories about space travel before The writers Pris said made it up. Philip K. Dick Science fiction 52
When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet. Philip K. Dick Crazy 49
How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly and for no reason for no real reason Just change. With nothing causing it. Philip K. Dick Memories 49
Its easy to win. Anybody can win. Philip K. Dick Life and living 47
Reality is that which when you stop believing in it doesnt go away. Philip K. Dick Belief 46
Everything is true he said. Everything anybody has ever thought. Will you be all right Ill be all right he said and thought And Im going to die. Both those are true too. Philip K. Dick Thought 44
A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want even to other planets. And for what To sit day after day declining in morale and hope. Philip K. Dick Existentialism 43
Im not much but Im all I have. Philip K. Dick Responsibility 42
Guilt if there was any guilt spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time at some spot in the world a moment of responsibility existed. Philip K. Dick Guilt 42
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane finally. Philip K. Dick Insanity 42
The cries of the dead are terrible indeed you should try not to hear them. Philip K. Dick Madness 40
Basically Sherris idea had to do with bringing Fats mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank. Philip K. Dick Reality 38
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 Tragedy 38
Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not therefore go along willingly with it. Philip K. Dick Revolution 37
The bird is gone and in what meadow does it now sing Philip K. Dick Spirituality 37
Amazed Fat said Shes decomposing and yet shes still giving birth Only to monsters Dr. Stone said. Philip K. Dick Creation 37
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 Car 36
Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then. Philip K. Dick Reality 36
Youre an unusual person she said. Bill didnt like you but he never likes anything different. Hes soso prosaic. Dont you think that when a person gets older he should becomebroadened in his outlook Philip K. Dick Philosophical 35
Thats what it means to die to not be able to stop looking at whatevers in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there with nothing you can do about it... Philip K. Dick Dying 34
Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit. Philip K. Dick Internet 34
A persons authentic nature is a series of shifting variegated planes that establish themselves as he relates to different people it is created by and appears within the framework of his interpersonal relationships. Philip K. Dick Character 33
But an artist he realized. Or rather socalled artist. Bohemian. Thats closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. Philip K. Dick Artist 31
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 Mental illness 31
I did not tell Fat this but technically he had become a Buddha. It did not seem to me like a good idea to let him know. After all if you are a Buddha you should be able to figure it out for yourself. Philip K. Dick Self awareness 31
I should not yield to it he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Compulsionobsessionphobia. But he could not free himself. It in my grip I in its he thought. Philip K. Dick Murder 30
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 28
Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how. Philip K. Dick Crazy 27
If Id known it was harmless Id have killed it myself Philip K. Dick Killing 27
A man is an angel that has gone deranged. Philip K. Dick Absurd 26
You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up Fat said. There are worse diseases than cancer. Did he show you slides We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief you laugh at what you can. Philip K. Dick Cancer 24

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