Philip K. Dick Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mistake, Fall, Mean

  "The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick". Book by Lawrence Sutin, 1995.

• I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway. In the universe people are in, people put their hands through the walls, and it turns out they're living in another century entirely. I often have the feeling — and it does show up in my books — that this is all just a stage.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wall, Silly, Book

  Science Fiction Review, August 1976.

• You know how people are about not taking care of an animal; they consider it immoral and antiempathic. I mean, technically it's not a crime like it was right after WWT but the feeling's still there.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Animal, People

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.13, Ballantine Books

• One thing I've found that I can do that I really enjoy is rereading my own writing, earlier stories and novels especially. It induces mental time travel, the same way certain songs you hear on the radio do ... the whole thing returns, an eerie feeling that I'm sure you've experienced.

  Philip K. Dick

  Song, Writing, Eerie

  "The Golden Man". Book by Philip K. Dick, 1980.

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