Philip K. Dick Quotes

We didn't have sense enough to take care of it. Now it's torn. And the artist is dead.

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.

There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.

We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.

I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, "You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.

Please don't continually say I'm paranoid.Why?It makes me paranoid.

This is a mournful discovery.1)Those who agree with you are insane2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

Everything is true, ' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.''Will you be all right?''I'll be all right, ' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.

They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.

Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back.

Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence of death. He perceived in this a micro-universe, complete.

There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all matters

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.

A law of survival, Ragle had said. Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish . . . version of a timeless rule.

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.

And, " my dad concluded, calming down a little, "all our dignity consists in just that. I mean, man's little and can't fill time and space, but he sure can make use of the brain God gave him.

Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.

Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.

That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it...

Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

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.

A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things.

Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step.

That's because you're a highly moral person. I'm not. I don't judge, not even myself.

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.

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.

Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this

The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.

Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.

Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?""Only to monsters, " Dr. Stone said.

The thing about rabbits, sir, is that everybody has one. I'd like to see you step up to the goat-class where I feel you belong. Frankly you look more like a goat man to me.

I should not yield to it, he told himself once again as he walked along carrying the briefcase. Compulsion-obsession-phobia. But he could not free himself. It in my grip, I in its, he thought.

Mankind needs more empathy.

An android, ” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for."“Then, ” Miss Luft said, “you must be an android.

I wonder, he wondered, if any human has ever felt this way before about an android.

When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back.

I am a mask, concealing the real.

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

It is proper that technically qualified non-lunatics should sit in judgement on lunatics. How could things be otherwise?

Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a scale.