Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the complexity of truth and the acceptance of both reality and personal fears.
In this quote, Philip K. Dick explores the nature of truth and the coexistence of various thoughts and feelings within an individual. It highlights the paradox of human existence where one can acknowledge the validity of multiple truths, even the poignant acceptance of mortality, all of which contribute to a nuanced understanding of life and self-awareness.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about the nature of reality.
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.
My theory is that many of the things that move us are things we long for but find hard to do.
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.
My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.
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