Philip K. Dick Quotes

There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight From the disease of conceit Whole lot of people seeing double tonight From the disease of conceit Give ya delusions of grandeur And a evil eye Give you the idea that You're too good to die Then they bury you from your head to your feet From the disease of conceit

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

I don't know how humble a person can be while consistently spouting statements like 'I, Donald Trump, am a totally gifted politician,' or 'I'm, like, a smart person.'

The downfall of any leader in a sport's team is when he gets carried away with his own ego.

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.

When you begin to believe you have license because you are a special person breathing special oxygen, that's when you're in big trouble. That's the road to insanity. And a lot of people in the studios are like that. They believe that they are special. I do think actors are blessed, or cursed, with maybe a slightly heightened awareness, which you have to use.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.