Philip K. Dick Quotes

Without a woman we’d discuss racing cars and horses and tell dirty jokes; no civilization.

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

When I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe, I suffer psychotic depression.

Whatever you fear will happen to you, booze will make it happen.

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 better that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small…and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?

We really do see astigmatically, in fundamental sense: our space and our time creations of our own psyche, and when these momentarily falter — like acute disturbance of middle ear.

We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

We can only control the end by making a choice at each step.

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.

We are all insects. Groping toward something terrible or divine.

We all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.