Quote

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.

Philip K. Dick

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Philip K. Dick
Age: 53 †
Born: 1928
Born: December 16
Died: 1982
Died: March 2
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Philip Kindred Dick
Philip Dick
Richard Phillips
Jack Dowland
Filip K. Dik
Infinite
Smart
Worth
Good
Pharmacist
Smarts
Mercies
Mercy

More quotes by Philip K. Dick

Image
The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
Philip K. Dick
Image
The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.
Philip K. Dick
Image
When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.
Philip K. Dick
Image
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
Image
Reality is just a point of view.
Philip K. Dick
Image
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.
Philip K. Dick
Image
There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.
Philip K. Dick
Image
No man is infinitely strong for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.
Philip K. Dick
Image
The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.
Philip K. Dick
Image
We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.
Philip K. Dick
Image
People have told me that everything about me, every facet of my life, psyche, experiences, dreams, and fears, are laid out explicitly in my writing, that from the corpus of my work I can be absolutely and precisely inferred. This is true.
Philip K. Dick
Image
Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
Philip K. Dick
Image
Activity does not necessarily mean life.
Philip K. Dick
Image
Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.
Philip K. Dick
Image
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist perhaps it is a phantom.
Philip K. Dick
Image
It's not what happened but how it is told.
Philip K. Dick
Image
Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?
Philip K. Dick
Image
The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.
Philip K. Dick
Image
Everything in life is just for a while.
Philip K. Dick
Image
Men and the world are mutually toxic to each other.
Philip K. Dick