Philip K. Dick Quotes

Consciousness regulates and becomes the flow of energy and information in your body, your relationships, and your world.

I believe that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process

We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist

This merely formal conceiving of the facts of one's own wretchedness is at the same time a departure from them--placing them in the object. It is not idle, therefore, to observe reflexively that in that very Thought, one has separated himself from them, and is no longer that which empirically he still sees himself to be.

The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness.

How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

Awareness means that whatsoever is happening in the moment is happening with complete consciousness; you are present there. If you are present when anger is happening, anger cannot happen. It can happen only when you are fast asleep. When you are present, immediate, transformation starts in your being, because when you are present, aware, many things are simply not possible. All that is called sin is not possible if you are aware. So, in fact, there is only one sin and that is unawareness.

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.

...[I am] utterly entranced, at times, with the mere fact that there are other people, and that they experience themselves as the primary center of consciousness just as I do. That fact alone...Well, that fact alone is staggering.

The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

We could say that practically all the problems of the human race are due to the fact that thought is not proprioceptive.

We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events.

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.