“But I have never had too high a regard for what is generally called ‘reality.’ Reality, to me, is not so much something you perceive, but something you make. You create it more rapidly then it creates you. Man is the reality that God created out of dust; God is the reality man creates continually out of his own passions, his own determination. ‘Good,’ for example—that is not a quality or even a force in the world or above the world, but what you do with the bits and pieces of meaningless, puzzling, disappointing, even cruel and crushing fragments all around us that seem to be pieces left over, discarded, from another world entirely that did, maybe, make sense.”
Philip K. Dick
[from a speech ("The Android and the Human") delivered at the University of British Columbia, 1972]
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