Philip K. Dick Quotes - MagicalQuote https://www.magicalquote.com The place where magic turns in quote... Thu, 17 Dec 2020 20:10:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.3 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. https://www.magicalquote.com/authorquotes/the-basic-tool-for-the-manipulation-of-reality/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:46:57 +0000 https://www.magicalquote.com/?post_type=authorquotes&p=45703 Joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness. https://www.magicalquote.com/authorquotes/joy-is-the-essential-and-final-ingredient/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:51:17 +0000 https://www.magicalquote.com/?post_type=authorquotes&p=45709 When I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe, I suffer psychotic depression. https://www.magicalquote.com/authorquotes/when-i-believe-i-am-crazy/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:54:32 +0000 https://www.magicalquote.com/?post_type=authorquotes&p=45714 We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present – deja vu. https://www.magicalquote.com/authorquotes/we-are-living-in-a-computer-programmed-reality/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:47:36 +0000 https://www.magicalquote.com/?post_type=authorquotes&p=45704 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. https://www.magicalquote.com/authorquotes/this-to-me-is-the-ultimately-heroic-trait/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:46:15 +0000 https://www.magicalquote.com/?post_type=authorquotes&p=45702 There are no private lives. This is what Nixon found out. Course he engineered it himself, with the tapes. This a most important aspect of modern life. As a science-fiction writer, dealing with the future, I want to speak to this. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. That we must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public. https://www.magicalquote.com/authorquotes/there-are-no-private-lives/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:55:10 +0000 https://www.magicalquote.com/?post_type=authorquotes&p=45715 The two basic topics which fascinate me are “What is reality?” and “What constitutes the authentic human being?” https://www.magicalquote.com/authorquotes/the-two-basic-topics-which-fascinate-me-are/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:52:09 +0000 https://www.magicalquote.com/?post_type=authorquotes&p=45710 The measure of a man is not his intelligence. It is not how high he rises in the freak establishment. The measure of a man is this: how swiftly can he react to another person’s need? And how much of himself can he give? https://www.magicalquote.com/authorquotes/the-measure-of-a-man-is-not-his-intelligence/ Sat, 12 Jul 2014 16:38:38 +0000 https://www.magicalquote.com/?post_type=authorquotes&p=3794 The core of my writing is not art but truth. https://www.magicalquote.com/authorquotes/the-core-of-my-writing-is-not-art-but-truth/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:52:39 +0000 https://www.magicalquote.com/?post_type=authorquotes&p=45711 Science has given more lives than it has taken; we must remember that. https://www.magicalquote.com/authorquotes/science-has-given-more-lives-than-it-has-taken/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:53:16 +0000 https://www.magicalquote.com/?post_type=authorquotes&p=45712 Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools. https://www.magicalquote.com/authorquotes/many-men-talk-like-philosophers-and-live-like-fools/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:49:06 +0000 https://www.magicalquote.com/?post_type=authorquotes&p=45706 If you find this world bad, you should see some of the others. https://www.magicalquote.com/authorquotes/if-you-find-this-world-bad/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 15:50:39 +0000 https://www.magicalquote.com/?post_type=authorquotes&p=45708