Philip K. Dick

People Quotes - Part 1 (50 person items)

"“Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.” “This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.” “There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you’re lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.” “The true measure of a man is not his i"

Authors with Mental Illnesses (23 person items)

"Starting in seventh grade Dick began suffering from bouts of extreme vertigo; the vertigo recurred with special intensity during his brief undergraduate stint. In his late teens, Dick later recalled, he was diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia - a label that terrified him. Other psychotherapists and psychiatrists in later years would offer other diagnoses, including the one that Dick was quite sane. Leaving aside medical terminology, there is no question that Dick felt himself, throughout"