I'm not much but I'm all I have.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance and valuing one's own existence.
Philip K. Dick's quote reflects on the idea of self-worth and identity. It suggests that while we may not be as grand or accomplished as we wish, our own existence and acceptance of ourselves is crucial. It encourages individuals to recognize that the essence of who we are is significant and deserving of value, regardless of societal standards or comparisons.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-worth, one might quote this to encourage others to embrace their true selves.
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.
There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
The Lord has said, βI have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.β (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will cope with affliction beforehand. But we do not know this. We need, therefore, the refining that God gives to us, though we do not seek or crave such tribulation.
Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter; or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
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