It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that trying to find absolute order or meaning in the universe may be pointless, yet we continue to persevere despite this futility.
Philip K. Dick's quote highlights the existential struggle that individuals face when confronted with the vast, often chaotic nature of the universe. It expresses a sense of futility in seeking to impose order or meaning on life, recognizing that many aspects of existence may never fully add up or make sense. Nevertheless, the quote encourages resilience and a determination to forge ahead despite these uncertainties.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about embracing life's challenges without expecting clarity.
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's a true image, born of a false spectacle.
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions - anger, jealousy, etc - to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago.
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
Terrorism has become a festering wound. It is an enemy of humanity.
For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance, of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.
The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation.
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