Philip K. Dick - God Quotes

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A lot can be said for the infinite mercies of God, but the smarts of a good pharmacist, when you get down to it, is worth more.

Philip K. Dick
God is either powerless, stupid or he doesn't give a shit.

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When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "— as near as I can figure out, God is dead." Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick.

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This is why I love SF. I love to read it; I love to write it. The SF writer sees not just possibilities but wild possibilities. It's not just "What if..." It's "My God; what if..." In frenzy and hysteria.

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For a moment he studied the massive figure who stood calmly between the two Civil Policemen. Beside him, they seemed to have shrunk, become ungainly and repellent. Like dwarves... What had Jean said? A god come to earth. Baines broke angrily away. "Come on," he muttered brusquely. "This one may be tough; we've never run up against one like it before. We don't know what the hell it can do."

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Explain it, Hamilton muttered. This place—this bar. Why doesn't God erase it? If this world operates by moral laws—
This bar is necessary to the moral order. This is a sinkpit of corruption and vice, a fleshpot of iniquity. You think salvation can function without damnation? You think virtue can exist without sin? That's the trouble with you atheists; you don't grasp the mechanics of evil. Get on the inside and enjoy life, man. If you're one of the Faithful, you've got nothing to worry about.
Opportunist.
Bet your sweet soul.

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It's the fault of those physicists and that synchronicity theory, every particle being connected with every other; you can't fart without changing the balance in the universe. It makes living a funny joke with nobody around to laugh. I open a book and get a report on future events that even God would like to file and forget. And who am I? The wrong person; I can tell you that.

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God is dead,' Nick said. 'They found his carcass in 2019. Floating in space near Alpha.' 'They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are,' Charley said. 'And evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. But that doesn't prove it was God.

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Why? Hamilton lashed out suddenly and loudly. Why the hell did God answer that prayer? Why not some of the others? Why not Bill Laws's?
God approved of your prayer, Silky said. After all, it's up to Him; He has to decide how He feels about it.
That's terrible.
Silky shrugged. Maybe so.
How can you live with that? You never know what's going to happen—there's no order, no logic. It infuriated him that she did not object, that it seemed natural to her. We're helpless; we have to depend on whim. It keeps us from being people—we're like animals waiting to be fed. Rewarded or punished.

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Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

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Insanity is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate — confusion between him who worships and that which is worshiped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

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God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him; we approach him through the mediating priest and attenuate and enclose him through the sacraments. It is for our own safety: to trap him within confines which render him safe.

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The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.

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