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.
It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a razor, senses more powerful than gods, hearing that can catch the music and the lamentations of life, your knowledge of humanity will never be total.
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.
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