Philip K. Dick Quotes

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

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

No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.

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.

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

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-

Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

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

Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.

What if he could see this, his own skull, yellow and eroded? Two centuries old. Would he still speak? Would he speak, if he could see it, the grinning, aged skull? What would there be for him to say, to tell the people? What message could he bring?

What action would not be futile, when a man could look upon his own aged, yellowed skull?

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

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

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

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.

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

La realidad objetiva es la construcción sintética, que trata con una hipotética universalización de multitud de realidades subjetivas.

I'm not much but I'm all I have.