Philip K. Dick Quotes

I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.

The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.

If he thought at all, but I don't believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would join like drops of water.

In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared. The next time I saw the outline of my face, and a few weeks later my face itself. It was the opposite of disappearing.

If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

One is but a shade of the other.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil.

Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.

Like a shadow, I am and I am not.

Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

It’s hard to look at Barron now, but I do. He’s smirking. His black hair and black suit make him into a shadow, as if I conjured some dark mirror of myself.

Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself, they're much less than the consequences of selling your soul.

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.

Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world.