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The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
Top 10 Best Quotes
“A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.”
“Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.”
“They want to be the agents, not the victims, of history. They identify with God's power and believe they are godlike. That is their basic madness. They are overcome by some archtype; their egos have expanded psychotically so that they cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off. It is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate — confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.”
“We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine.”
“What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small… and you will escape the jealousy of the great.”
“Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up.”
“On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.”
“What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?”
“There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.”
“When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.”
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hopelessness, ego-inflation, god-is-dead, existential, agency, existentialism, truth, nazism, despair, 1962, future, evil