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Letter "P" » Philip K. Dick Quotes
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«It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.»
«Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.»
Author: Philip K. Dick
(Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Realism,
Reality
| Keywords:
believing, going away, go away, stop
«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.»
Author: Philip K. Dick
(Writer)
| About:
Reality,
Words
| Keywords:
manipulation, manipulations, tool
«Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.»
«Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.»
Author: Philip K. Dick
(Writer)
«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.»
«The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.»
«Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.»
Author: Philip K. Dick
(Writer)
| Keywords:
dreadful, fiction writer, science fiction, Science fiction writers, unofficial
«The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeenth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.»
Author: Philip K. Dick
(Writer)
| Keywords:
band, exploration, go by, Jules, Jules Verne, lands, lay in, novels, origin, rocket, rockets, Rocket Science, rubber band, science fiction, seventeenth, seventeenth century, The Rocket, travel to, Verne
«Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.»
Author: Philip K. Dick
(Writer)
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