A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that the innate goodness of humanity can become distorted or lost over time.
Philip K. Dick's quote presents a thought-provoking perspective on the nature of humanity, implying that people possess an inherent angelic quality but often succumb to madness or moral corruption. It raises questions about the fundamental nature of individuals and the impact of external forces on their psyche, highlighting the fragile balance between virtue and insanity.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about the duality of human nature.
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.
I never liked the idea of doing what a machine says. I hate having to salute something built in a factory.
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.
Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.
Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time.
If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.
The only people who want to change the Gospel are those who are unchanged by it.
You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.
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