“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
― Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
—Philip K. Dick (1923-1982)
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
—Philip K. Dick (1923-1982)
“The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.”
—Philip K. Dick (1923-1982)
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
—Philip K. Dick (1923-1982)
“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
—Philip K. Dick (1923-1982)
“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
—Philip K. Dick (1923-1982)
“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
—Philip K. Dick (1923-1982)
"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."
—Philip K. Dick (1923-1982)
"Reality is just a point of view."
—Philip K. Dick (1923-1982)
"In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail."
—Philip K. Dick (1923-1982)
"It's not what happened but how it is told."
—Philip K. Dick (1923-1982)
"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."
—Philip K. Dick (1923-1982)
Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools."
—Philip K. Dick (1923-1982)
"Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing.
—Philip K. Dick (1923-1982) We don't."