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a9b5749
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It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
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qotd
madness
reality
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Philip K. Dick |
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dc526b1
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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reality
real-life
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Philip K. Dick |
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af9cd16
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I'm not much but I'm all I have.
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time
responsibility
optimism
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Philip K Dick |
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e291346
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My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.
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Philip K. Dick |
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53a9ac9
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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.
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science
life
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Philip K. Dick |
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b62d187
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Everything in life is just for a while.
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Philip K. Dick |
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7d3dce8
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When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.
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quiet
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Philip K. Dick |
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6b564fa
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Reality denied comes back to haunt.
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history
self-deception
psychology
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Philip K. Dick |
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30b60a4
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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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magik
power-of-words
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Philip K. Dick |
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2262449
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A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.
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hopelessness
future
existentialism
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Philip K. Dick |
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4e69e72
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Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.
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Philip K. Dick |
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e04c8ae
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No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.
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humor
postmodern
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Philip K. Dick |
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6a06e80
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I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped yourself out any time, if not alone then by means of the mood organ. But when you get that depressed you don't care. Apathy, because you've lost a sense of worth. It doesn't matter whether you feel better because you have no worth.
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Philip K. Dick |
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f06b065
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Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You follow it a far as you can go. But finally,the grief goes away and you phase back into the world. Without him. And you can accept that. What the hell choice is there? You cry, you continue to cry, because you don't ever completely come back from where you went with him -- a fragment broken off your pulsing, pumping heart is..
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grief
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Philip K. Dick |
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c708b93
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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.
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paranoia
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Philip K. Dick |
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e3d46db
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What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me - into us - clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can't any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone's sake, the sca..
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Philip K. Dick |
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1dd4f61
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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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rebellion
rebel
revolution
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Philip K. Dick |
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6ed0134
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You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up."
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meta
science-fiction
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Philip K. Dick |
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09da915
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Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
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reality
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Philip K. Dick |
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02da89f
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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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Philip K. Dick |
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1809606
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Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
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Philip K. Dick |
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eaa4a7a
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If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself!
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pointlessness
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Philip K. Dick |
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24c15a0
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The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.
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Philip K. Dick |
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347d520
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But the actual touch of her lingered, inside his heart. That remained. In all the years of his life ahead, the long years without her, with never seeing her or hearing from her or knowing anything about her, if she was alive or happy or dead or what, that touch stayed locked within him, sealed in himself, and never went away. That one touch of her hand.
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Philip K. Dick |
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d5268fe
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It's the basic condition of life to be required to violate our own identity.
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Philip K. Dick |
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7ca5db1
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Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.
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vegetarianism
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Philip K. Dick |
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e784018
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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.
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reality
mental-illness
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Philip K. Dick |
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6968f27
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I like her; I could watch her the rest of my life. She has breasts that smile.
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Philip K. Dick |
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bb5b097
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No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.
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entropy
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Philip K. Dick |
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c7a2805
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To live is to be haunted.
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live
life
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Philip K. Dick |
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2b04105
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You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore"
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Philip K. Dick |
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e2a592e
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How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.
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Philip K. Dick |
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1341878
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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.
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Philip K. Dick |
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c3ae1ba
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we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.
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Philip K. Dick |
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d0836d7
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Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come.
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san-francisco
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Philip K. Dick |
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dedb3da
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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 .
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humanity
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Philip K. Dick |
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e8060f1
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Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more." "I see." The girl regarded him uncertainly, not knowing whether to believe him. Not sure if he mean..
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Philip K. Dick |
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f5a99ed
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Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.
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Philip K. Dick |
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a11187e
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Fish cannot carry guns.
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Philip K. Dick |
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9dde486
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Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.
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life
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Philip K. Dick |
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1fac093
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They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness. They are overcome by some archtype; their egos have expanded psychotically so that they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off. It is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate -- confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not ..
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agency
ego-inflation
god-is-dead
nazism
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Philip K. Dick |
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f735078
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God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God.
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Philip K. Dick |
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59c4247
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Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.
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philosophy
logic
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Philip K. Dick |
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2c2b2cc
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I became educated to the fact that the greatest pain does not come zooming down from a distant planet, but from the depths of the heart. Of course, both could happen; your wife and child could leave you, and you could be sitting alone in your empty house with nothing to live for, and in addition the Martians could bore through the roof and get you.
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Philip K. Dick |