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.
I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding that we are tiny people on a tiny little earth suspended in an endless void that echoes past stars and stars of stars.
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
A man should be upright, not kept upright.
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