Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.
Interpretation
Trying new things is a wise approach to life, not a shameful one.
Philip K. Dick's quote emphasizes the importance of experimentation and open-mindedness in life. He suggests that attempting new ventures, even if they may seem risky or unconventional, is a sign of wisdom and insight rather than a failure or disgrace.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing change and trying new things.
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.
Pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.
What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.
Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we’re on our knees but while we’re on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us. Selfless acts of service and consecration refine our spirits remove the scales from our spiritual eyes and open the windows of heaven. By becoming the answer to someone’s prayer we often find the answer to our own.
You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.
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