Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back.
Interpretation
Fear can negatively influence our actions more than other negative emotions, causing us to restrain ourselves.
In this quote, Philip K. Dick emphasizes the pervasive and detrimental effects of fear on our behavior. Unlike hate or jealousy, which may provoke us to act out, fear encourages us to withdraw and hold back, preventing us from fully engaging with the world and pursuing our true desires. This insight highlights the importance of confronting our fears to live more authentically and boldly.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage people to face their fears.
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.
War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.
Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.
In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding planting and harvests, the prayers that are sent upward for healing and peace, and the welcoming of children into our families, are all reasons for us to keep moving forward with optimism.
They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.
Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.
I'm gay and always have been, even when I was David Jones.
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