Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
Interpretation
Fear can negatively influence our actions more than other negative emotions, causing us to restrain ourselves.
In this quote, Philip K. Dick emphasizes the pervasive and detrimental effects of fear on our behavior. Unlike hate or jealousy, which may provoke us to act out, fear encourages us to withdraw and hold back, preventing us from fully engaging with the world and pursuing our true desires. This insight highlights the importance of confronting our fears to live more authentically and boldly.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage people to face their fears.
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.
She wanted to tell him so mach, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.
We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
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