Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the complexity of truth and the acceptance of both reality and personal fears.
In this quote, Philip K. Dick explores the nature of truth and the coexistence of various thoughts and feelings within an individual. It highlights the paradox of human existence where one can acknowledge the validity of multiple truths, even the poignant acceptance of mortality, all of which contribute to a nuanced understanding of life and self-awareness.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about the nature of reality.
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.
If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.
Brethren, let us mind our own business - that is, the calling the Lord has called us to - to do everything we can to promote the good of the Cause of Truth, and never ask how big we are, or inquire who we are; but let it be, 'What can I do to build up the Kingdom of God upon the Earth?'
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
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