Philip K. Dick Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. 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.”

“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.”

“When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.”

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”

“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.”