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Activity does not necessarily ...

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

Madness, like small fish, runs...

Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

In one of the most brilliant p...

In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. 'It is custom which rules ,' Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy .

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

The pre-Socratic Greek philoso...

The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

Be happy now because tomorrow ...

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

The psychotic does not merely ...

The psychotic does not merely think he sees four blue bivalves with floppy wings wandering up the wall; he does see them. An hallucination is not, strictly speaking, manufactured in the brain; it is received by the brain, like any 'real' sense datum, and the patient act in response to this to-him-very-real perception of reality in as logical a way as we do to our sense data. In any way to suppose he only 'thinks he sees it' is to misunderstand totally the experience of psychosis.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

Giving me a a new idea is like...

Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

Insanity - to have to construc...

Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

That is the artist's job: take...

That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

A lot can be said for the infi...

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.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

I want to write about people I...

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,

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

In my writing I even question ...

In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

A human being without the prop...

A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the
fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that 'No man is an island,' but giving that
theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

Even if all life on our planet...

Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world
unseen by us, in some region or dimension that we simply do not perceive. Even though I can't prove that, even though it isn't logical - I believe it.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

I started reading SF when I wa...

I started reading SF when I was about twelve and I read all I could, so any author who was writing about that time, I read. But there's no doubt who got me off originally and that was A. E.
van Vogt.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

I'm a strange person. Sometime...

I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

Little kids are that way; they...

Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

The Empire is the institution,...

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

The bird is gone, and in what ...

The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

Reality denied comes back to h...

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Philip Kindred Dick 239 quotes

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