4 Philip Kindred Dick Quotes on Philosophy

Philip Kindred Dick quotes on philosophy

5. In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language [David] Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law - in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. 'It is custom which rules,' Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy.

27. I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

33. 'Everything is true', he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought'.

76. Is it real? Does it matter?