Philip K. Dick Quotes

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• 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

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• 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

  1986 I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon,'How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later'.

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• 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

  "How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later". Speech by Philip K. Dick, published in "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" (book by Philip K. Dick), 1978.

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  Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

  Philip K. Dick

  Atheist, Real, Believe

  Valis ch. 5 (1981). Originally appeared in a 1978 lecture by Dick entitled "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart in Two Days." See Paktor 1

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• 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

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• Reality is just a point of view.

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  Reality, Views, Point Of View

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• In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Innocent Man, Jail

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• Everything in life is just for a while.

  Philip K. Dick

  Life Is

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• It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

  Philip K. Dick

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.169, Vintage

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Optimistic

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• I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm escaping a world I don't like. A world I have no control in. In this world, I am nothing. I am a color, a height, a weight, a number. But in the world of books and writing, I am amazing. I am powerful. I am different. People are better. Worlds are endless. Change is possible. Life is manageable.

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  Powerful, Book, Writing

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• It's not what happened but how it is told.

  Philip K. Dick

  Statistics, Happened

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• There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

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  Inspirational, Life, Moving

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

  Philip K. Dick

  Tyrants, People, Resistance

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• Reality denied comes back to haunt.

  Philip K. Dick

  Reality, Psychology, Denied

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

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  Bears, Should, Aspect

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.

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  Men, Fool, Philosopher

  Philip K. Dick “13 Short Stories”, Lulu.com

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• When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.

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  Dream, Two, People

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• 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?

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  Real, Unique, Talking

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

  Philip K. Dick

  Crazy, Quiet

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “Valis”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.

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  Lucky, Firsts, Certain

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• Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.

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  Assuming, Knows

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Pantheon

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• I'm not much but I'm all I have.

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  Optimistic, Responsibility, Optimism

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Martian Time-Slip”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Philip K. Dick

  Discovery, Insane, Paranoia

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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