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.
There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.
Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.
…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.
Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.
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.
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.
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.
I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.
Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.
For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.
The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.
Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
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.
Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.
A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more.
No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.
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.
(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.
This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.
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.
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
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.
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.