Philip K. Dick Quotes

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

Reality, Words, Control

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Philip K. Dick

Reality, Sometimes, Insane

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.
Philip K. Dick

Life, Time, Long

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Philip K. Dick

Night, Try, Serious

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.
Philip K. Dick

Car, Moving, Decision

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Philip K. Dick

Reality, Away, Whatever

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

Ordinary, Heroic, Resistance

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick

Reality, Away, Stop

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.
Philip K. Dick

Knowledge, Science, Sorry

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 2, 1928

Died: March 2, 1982

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