I dreamed: I am the fish whose flesh is eaten, and because I am fat, it is good.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the complexity of self-perception and sacrifice, suggesting that one's perceived flaws can also be seen as advantages.
In this quote, Philip K. Dick explores the duality of the human experience through the metaphor of a fish whose fat is consumed. It highlights how from one perspective, being seen as desirable or valuable can lead to exploitation, yet from another perspective, this same quality can be viewed as a source of contentment or worth. It invites the reader to consider how our traits and vulnerabilities can be interpreted in contrasting ways based on individual experiences and societal perspectives.
In practice
During a motivational talk about self-acceptance, one might use this quote to highlight the importance of embracing one's flaws.
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.
It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.
There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain
The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.
.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.
The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually-to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul-harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.
How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
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