38 quotes
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
"To live is to be haunted."
on Life
"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity."
on Identity
"The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority."
on Society
"Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then."
on Psychology
"Reality denied comes back to haunt."
on Truth
"No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it."
on Philosophy
"It is proper that technically qualified non-lunatics should sit in judgement on lunatics. How could things be otherwise?"
on Ethics
"Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally."
on Mental Health
"If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others."
"This is a mournful discovery.1)Those who agree with you are insane2)Those who do not agree with you are in power."
"Matter is plastic in the face of Mind."
"I am a mask, concealing the real."
"When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back."
"If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected."
on Addiction
"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
"The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?"
on Nature
"Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy... fear makes you always, always hold something back."
on Fear
"The basic thing is, how frightened are you of chaos? And how happy are you with order?"
"Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man."
"They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him."
on Faith
