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
| • | If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. 5 |
| • | Reality denied comes back to haunt. 5 |
| • | Reality is just a point of view. 4 |
| • | I'm not much but I'm all I have. 1 |
| • | Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. 1 |
| • | Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck. 1 |
| • | 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. 1 |
| • | No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. 1 |
| • | Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate. 1 |
| • | 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. 1 |
| • | The problem with introspection is that it has no end. 1 |
| • | When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion. 1 |
| • | When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet. 1 |
| • | It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen. 1 |
| • | In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail. 1 |
| • | Everything in life is just for a while. 1 |
| • | There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. 1 |
| • | 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. 1 |
| • | 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. 1 |
| • | Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. 1 |
| • | It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. 1 |
