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Quotes from VALIS — Philip K. Dick

1928–1982 United States

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"You of all people," the void communicated. "Out of everyone, it is you I love the most."

VALIS (1981)

On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second.

VALIS (1981)

We hypostasize information into objects.

VALIS (1981)

Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

VALIS (1981)

God is either powerless, stupid or he doesn't give a shit.

VALIS (1981)

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense.

VALIS (1981)

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

VALIS (1981)

We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information.

VALIS (1981)

We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing.

VALIS (1981)

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.

VALIS (1981)

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.

VALIS (1981)

Madness has its own dynamism. It just goes on.

VALIS (1981)

Crazy people do not apply the principle of scientific parsimony... they shoot for the baroque.

VALIS (1981)

"matter is plastic in the face of mind."

VALIS (1981)

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement ... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus ... thereby it becomes its enemies.

VALIS (1981)

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than the 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.

VALIS (1981)

Mental illness is not funny.

VALIS (1981)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Philip K. Dick (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.