It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that trying to find absolute order or meaning in the universe may be pointless, yet we continue to persevere despite this futility.
Philip K. Dick's quote highlights the existential struggle that individuals face when confronted with the vast, often chaotic nature of the universe. It expresses a sense of futility in seeking to impose order or meaning on life, recognizing that many aspects of existence may never fully add up or make sense. Nevertheless, the quote encourages resilience and a determination to forge ahead despite these uncertainties.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about embracing life's challenges without expecting clarity.
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.
The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
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