Philip K. Dick Quotes

I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

I think we all see the world from our own little unique bubble.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many “real worlds” as there are people!

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

Everyone's going to have their own experience and perspective on everything.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

None of us exist in a world that is the same world that any of the rest of us live in. The world that's important is the world behind each of our eyes, which is something that none of the rest of us can access.

Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning.

No one can see your life the way you see it.

I was the world in which I walked.

Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought "Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!" That's not what I saw necessarily but I don't think any two people see the same movie.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.