Philip K. Dick

Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#logic #philosophy #logic

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#mental-illness #reality #dreams

To live is to be haunted. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#life #live #life

The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing? ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#grief #spirituality #death

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#meta #science-fiction #dreams

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#mentally-disturbed #religion #science #religion

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#life #thought #truth #death

She makes life over, he realized. She controls life, whereas I just sit on my can and let it happen to me. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#life

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#artist #artistic #bohemian #bohemianism #art

I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#dreams