“We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.”
― Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
― Philip K. Dick: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
― Critique of Pure Reason
― Critique of Pure Reason
“The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.”
― Thirst for Love
― Thirst for Love
“If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.”
― Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
― Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.”
― An American Dream
― An American Dream
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