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.
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.
The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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