Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.
Interpretation
Trying new things is a wise approach to life, not a shameful one.
Philip K. Dick's quote emphasizes the importance of experimentation and open-mindedness in life. He suggests that attempting new ventures, even if they may seem risky or unconventional, is a sign of wisdom and insight rather than a failure or disgrace.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing change and trying new things.
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.
Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.
The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.
Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.
Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.
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