Philip K Dick Famous Quotes
"There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass... unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing crab grass with suspicion. What are it's real motives And who sent it here in the first place It only looks like crab grass. That's what they want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suit will fall off and their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it'll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms."
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Philip K Dick Quotations
"There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter."
Charles Caleb Colton
Living together is an art.
William Pickens
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
Confucius
An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler
"The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality."
Sir Eric Ashby
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Jean de la Bruyere
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Helen Hayes
"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."
Christine Bovee