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

— Philip K. Dick How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978)

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My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

You must beware of seeing malice behind accidental injury.

Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964)

You’re not just out of your body; you’re out of your mind, too.

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)

The church of my choice is the free, open world.

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said (1974)

Man's society is an ecology that forces adaptation to it.

The Variable Man (1952)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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