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.
Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious.
I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
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