Quotes About Perception

Of course, he snuck all this in under the guise of pulp science fiction, baiting us into believing that maybe this is all just fantasy. Only once the story is over, and we take another look at the world around us, do we realize: It's all completely true.

It is therapeutic to meet these people who have intimidated you. And to discover what they are really like. Then the intimidation goes.

You stupid bastard, does what you're fighting for look so real now? Skin pigment. What a laugh! Why not eye color? Too bad nobody ever thought of that. It cuts it a little finer, but basically it's the same thing.

In other words, the universe itself—and the Mind behind it—is insane. Therefore someone in touch with reality is, by definition, in touch with the insane: infused by the irrational.

First, strangely, the owls had died. At the time it had seemed almost funny, the fat, fluffy white birds lying here and there, in yards and on streets; coming out no earlier than twilight as they had while alive the owls escaped notice.

Everyone dwelt in it without realizing it. The Black Iron Prison was their world.

Being crazy and getting caught at it, out in the open, turns out to be a way to wind up in jail.

Maybe—after 14 months all I really know is that I don't know anything except that it happened to me, and what I saw during that short time was real. That's

Philip K. Dick

The linking and relinking of objects by the Brain is actually a language, but not a language like ours (since it is addressing itself and not someone or something outside itself.)

Objective reality is a synthetic construct, dealing with a hypothetical universalization of a multitude of subjective realities.

There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.

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

It looks," Lotze said, gazing down, "as if it was designed by a Jew.

The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.

GOD IS NO WHERE GOD IS NOW HERE

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

The end times were not the end times after all. The end times were always coming but never here, always nearby and influencing us but never realized.

What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me—into us—clearly or darkly?

One seeks to contravene one's perceptions - why? So that one can wander utterly lost, without signposts or guide?

Não podemos conhecer a totalidade das respostas. Não nos é possível ver para diante, por nossa conta e risco

The sane man does not know that everything is possible. In other words, the mentally ill person at one time or another knew too much. And, as a result, so to speak, his head shut down.

Jak z?o?ymy wszystko, co wiemy, to widzimy tylko, ?e co? tu nie gra. Ale jak pi?knie i ciekawie nie gra.

I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can't any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone's sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we'll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too.