Philip K. Dick Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• 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.

• You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.

  Philip K. Dick

  Science, Shadow, Identity

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049”, p.179, Ballantine Books

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

  Philip K. Dick

  Inspirational, Life, Optimistic

• I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be.

  Philip K. Dick

  Moving, Names, World

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Ubik”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Writing, Wonder

• What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Unseen, Doe

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Can we consider the universe real, and if so, in what way?

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Statistics, Way

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report”

• It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.

  Philip K. Dick

  Trying, Add, Goes On

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “Beyond Lies the Wub”

• 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.

• My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Reality, Political, Drug

• The Logos was both that which thought, and the thing which it thought: thinker and thought together. The universe, then, is thinker and thought, and since we are part of it, we as humans are, in the final analysis, thoughts of and thinkers of those thoughts.

  Philip K. Dick

  Together, Finals, Analysis

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

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