Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.
Interpretation
Reality is shaped by our perceptions and narratives.
Philip K. Dick's quote suggests that reality is not just a simple, objective existence but rather something that is interpreted and constructed through the stories we tell ourselves and others. This highlights the significance of perception in understanding our experiences and the world around us.
In practice
In a discussion on the nature of truth at a philosophical seminar.
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.
I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.
I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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