There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. That one of the biggest transformations we have seen in human life in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. That we must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the loss of privacy in modern society, suggesting that everything is publicly accessible.
Philip K. Dick highlights a crucial change in contemporary life, where the boundaries of privacy have diminished significantly. He suggests that in today's world, individuals can no longer maintain secrets, and the notion of a private life is fundamentally altered, emphasizing the pervasive nature of public scrutiny and the transparency of personal lives in a connected society.
In practice
In a discussion about the implications of social media on personal lives, this quote serves to illustrate the lack of privacy.
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.
Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.
All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.
I cannot command winds and weather.
My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland.
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
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