I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.
Interpretation
People fear the unknown and often try to eliminate it rather than confront it.
In this quote, Philip K. Dick highlights a fundamental human tendency to fear uncertainty and the unknown aspects of life. Instead of embracing ambiguity and exploring what lies beyond their understanding, individuals may resort to destructive behaviors as a way to cope with their discomfort, revealing both the fragility and the primal instincts inherent in human nature.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming fears during a company workshop.
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.
No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed.
Like one who has eaten and drunk too much and vomits painfully and then feels better, so did the restless man wish he could rid himself with one terrific heave of these pleasures, of these habits of this entirely senseless life.
Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.
To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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