Philip K. Dick Quotes

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

God is dead!

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.

God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

Question boldly even the existence of God.

Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal be sad about. And if He doesn’t exist, then that too would make Him quite sad, I imagine. So to answer your question, God must be sad.

I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.

There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.

Every one starts out being an atheist.

God is dead and I am his replacement.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

Even David Hume, one of history most famous skeptics, said it's just barely possible that God exists.

Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores.