Philip K. Dick

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

Exploring the mysteries of myself and the world. Sensual, powerful, wise… on my path…

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights…sexual intercourse!…His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me.

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.