Philip K. DickThinkers

Activity is not necessarily synonymous with life.

Drug abuse is a social error when it becomes a common life-style choice. While the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," in fact the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

Drug abuse 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 in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

Empathy is incompatible with meat eating, because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurs the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.

Everything is true. Everything anybody has ever thought

God is dead. They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha. They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are, and evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself.

Government is evil when it anticipates bad conduct on the part of its citizens. Any government which assumes that the population is going to do something evil has already lost its franchise to govern.

Insanity is not pride, it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

Life is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.

Life is, for everything, just for a while.

Living is to be haunted.

A Man is an angel that has gone deranged.