Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.
Interpretation
Self-awareness of one's mental state may indicate a level of sanity or progress toward it.
This quote from Philip K. Dick explores the idea of self-awareness in relation to sanity. It suggests that recognizing one's own insanity can be a sign of returning to a more sane state of mind, implying that the journey toward self-awareness and understanding oneβs own mental struggles may be an important step toward healing and clarity.
In practice
Using this quote in a discussion about mental health awareness.
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.
Distracted from distraction by distraction
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.
Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.
We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.
As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.
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