Quotes by
Philip Dick |
1928-1982 , American sci-fi writer
He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories. Best known books: The Man in the High Castle (1962) (Hugo Award for Best Novel), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and Ubik (1969).
Popular films based on his works include Blade Runner (1982), Total Recall (1990, 2012), Minority Report (2002), A Scanner Darkly (2006), The Adjustment Bureau (2011), and Radio Free Albemuth (2010). Beginning in 2015, Amazon produced the multi-season television adaptation The Man in the High Castle, based on Dick's 1962 novel.
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Quotations
| • | Reality denied comes back to haunt. 4 |
| • | If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. 4 |
| • | Reality is just a point of view. 3 |
| • | It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. |
| • | Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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 them. |
| • | There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. |
| • | Everything in life is just for a while. |
| • | In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail. |
| • | It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen. |
| • | When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet. |
| • | When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion. |
| • | The problem with introspection is that it has no end. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate. |
| • | No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck. |
| • | Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. |
| • | I'm not much but I'm all I have. |
