Philip K. Dick Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

• 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.

• Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.

  Philip K. Dick

  Giving Up, Lying, Believe

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Why is love so good...? You love someone and they leave. They come home one day and you say "What's happening?" and they say, "I got a better offer someplace else," and there they go, out of your life forever, and after that until you're dead you're carrying around this huge hunk of love with no one to give it to. And if you do find someone to give it to, the same thing happens all over.

  Philip K. Dick

  Home, Giving, Forever

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s”

• In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way of saying, 'We have abolished that help, and in its place we will rule,' offering no help at all: taking but not giving, ruling but not obeying, telling but not listening, taking life and not giving it. The slayers govern now, without interference; the dreams of mankind have become empty.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dream, Men, Offering

• Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?" "Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.

  Philip K. Dick

  Giving, Stones, Monsters

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.

  Philip K. Dick

  Gun, Ideas, Giving

• You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

  Philip K. Dick

  Taken, Idols, Giving

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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