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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Atheist #Real #Believe
“Everything in life is just for a while.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Life Is
“Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Depression #Night #Insomnia
“â€¦we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Lying #Self #People
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Inspirational #Life #Reality
“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Men #Giving #Beautiful Life
“There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. We must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Secret #Important #Modern Life
“How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Sleep #Foolish
“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.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Real #Book #Mind
“Reality is just a point of view.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Reality #Views #Point Of View
“There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along it seemed to me that the flattened beer cans and papers and weeds and junk mail had been arranged by the wind into patterns; these patterns, when I scrutinized them, lay distributed so as to comprise a visual language.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Weed #Beer #Wind
“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'.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Technology #Phones
“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

#Writing #Reality #People
“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Responsibility #Optimistic #Optimism
“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 K. Dick

#Real #Views #Two
“For each person there is a sentenceâ€”a series of wordsâ€”which has the power to destroy them.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Sentences #Persons
“Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Home #Wish #Doe
“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Inspirational #Life #Moving
“The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didnâ€™t hate the cabinet door, I hated my lifeâ€¦ My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Pain #Hate #Dark
“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.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Science #Identity #Shadow
“The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Wisdom #People #Want
“Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Bears #Aspect #Should
“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others?”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Real #Unique #Talking
“What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being at all.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Father #Faces #Scared
“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Reality #Links #Strange
“It's easy to win. Anybody can win.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Sunset #Winning #Easy
“Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Men #Fool #Philosopher
“Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Terrible #Harder
“Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
-- Philip K. Dick

#Religious #Real #Writing
“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 #Humorous #Learning

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