There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen in human life in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. That we must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the loss of privacy in modern society, suggesting that everything is publicly accessible.
Philip K. Dick highlights a crucial change in contemporary life, where the boundaries of privacy have diminished significantly. He suggests that in today's world, individuals can no longer maintain secrets, and the notion of a private life is fundamentally altered, emphasizing the pervasive nature of public scrutiny and the transparency of personal lives in a connected society.
In practice
In a discussion about the implications of social media on personal lives, this quote serves to illustrate the lack of privacy.
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.
Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.
Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.
What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.
There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.
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