Philip K. Dick Quotes

“If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality, and infringe on the integrity and individuality of their world. This is done in politics, in psychotherapy.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“But reality really is a mess, and yet it's exciting. The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order? Van Vogt influenced me so much because he made me appreciate a mysterious chaotic quality in the universe which is not to be feared.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“Please don't continually say I'm paranoid.
Why?
It makes me paranoid.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“There's nothing worse than a perceptive universe if there's something weird about you.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“DICK: I think philosophically I fit in with some of the very late pre-Socratic people around the time of Zeno and Diogenes—the Cynics, in the Greek sense. I am inevitably persuaded by every argument that is brought to bear.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, "You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

“Van Vogt’s The World of Null-A—there was something about that which absolutely fascinated me.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“manifestations of paranoia. We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It’s not much, but it’s always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.”
― Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations