I mean, after all, you have to consider we're only made out of dust. That's admittedly not much to go on and we shouldn't forget that. But even considering, I mean it's sort of a bad beginning, we're not doing too bad. So I personally have faith that even in this lousy situation we're faced with we can make it. You get me?
Interpretation
Despite our humble origins as mere dust, we have the potential to overcome our circumstances and achieve greatness.
Philip K. Dick reflects on the nature of existence, highlighting the idea that despite being composed of insignificant matter, humanity has the capacity to strive for success and find meaning. He acknowledges the challenging conditions we face, yet emphasizes the importance of having faith in our ability to navigate and improve our situations, thereby finding hope and purpose even in adversity.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to encourage people to believe in their abilities despite adversity.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.
I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference.
You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
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