Quotes by Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick

…the essence of the evil government is that it anticipates bad conduct on the part of its citizens. Any government which assumes that the population is going to do something evil has already lost its franchise to govern.

Essence

Evil

Government

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

Lying

People

Self

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“Do you have information that there’s an android in the cast? I’d be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?” “An android,” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for.” “Then,” Miss Luft said, “you must be an android.”

Care

Looks

Missing

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(Insanity) 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 eaten God; God has eaten man.

Confusion

Men

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A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

Children

Lying

Two

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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 is not a man.

Fall

Mean

Mistake

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A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more.

Infinite

Mercy Of God

Smart

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A man is an angel that has gone deranged.

Angel

Gone

Men

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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.

Alive

Existentialism

Want

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Activity does not necessarily mean life.

Doe

Life

Mean

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