Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.
Interpretation
Self-awareness of one's mental state may indicate a level of sanity or progress toward it.
This quote from Philip K. Dick explores the idea of self-awareness in relation to sanity. It suggests that recognizing one's own insanity can be a sign of returning to a more sane state of mind, implying that the journey toward self-awareness and understanding oneβs own mental struggles may be an important step toward healing and clarity.
In practice
Using this quote in a discussion about mental health awareness.
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.
In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope.
Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master's cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee the crucified Christ have probably not yet understood him in a sufficiently radical way.
I am a black American, I say, and thus announce my atavistic connection to all others who live as black Americans, to all who ever lived as black Americans. Religion, caste, class, gender and race can all be atavisms, and they are inherently anti-democratic because they exclude all outside the atavism.
The light of the Lord's transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even though for a short time on the narrow mountain top it was seen by human eyes.
It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.
The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.
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