Quotes About Truth

Philip K. Dick

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. I'm

Si es amor por una mujer o una imitación androide, es sexo. Despierte y cuestióneselo, Deckard. Quería acostarse con un androide femenino, nada más y nada menos.

The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.

Does this cure your depression?" he asked her. "It cures mine." Iran said, "It certainly does cure my depression. Now we can admit to everybody that the sheep's false." "No need to do that," he said cautiously. "But we can," Iran persisted. "See, now we have nothing to hide; what we've always wanted has come true. It's a dream!

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then." ? Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

When the senile patient awakens in the morning and asks for his mother, remind him that she is long since dead, that he is over eighty years old and living in a convalescent home, and that this is 1992 and not 1913 and that he must face reality and the fact that

A man driven by rage may stumble, in his passion, onto truth.

A realidade é aquilo que não desaparece, quando se deixa de crer nisso.

Strano come un delirio persecutorio riesca di tanto in tanto a incontrare, per quanto brevemente, la realtà.

I'll be all right," he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

Hay muchos libros vivos. No de un modo metafórico.

I've read the Cosmic Trigger and Robert Anton Wilson says

Everything's the same, when you break through to absolute reality; it's all one vast blur.

verisimilitude.

Mercerism is a swindle.' The whole experience of empathy is a swindle.

God, what a dreadful thing - the truth.

Rick said, "I'll find out from Harry Bryant." He felt irritable; office gossip annoyed him because it always proved better than the truth.

Questi romanzieri conoscono un milione di trucchi. Prendete il dottor Goebbels; è così che ha cominciato, scrivendo narrativa.

The hallmark of the fraudulent is that it becomes what you would like it to be.

Realidade é aquela coisa que não desaparece quando você deixa de acreditar nela.

It was like a plague. No one could discern how much was due to drugs. This time in America—1960 to 1970—and this place, the Bay Area of Northern California, was totally fucked. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that's the truth. Fancy terms and ornate theories cannot cover this fact up. The authorities became as psychotic as those they hunted.

É incrível que, quando mais alguém começa a botar pra fora as besteiras em que você próprio acredita, você consegue perceber imediatamente como elas não fazem o menor sentido.

There is no door to God through dope; that is a lie peddled by the unscrupulous.