"The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque."
                
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            Philip K. Dick, VALIS
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Quotes by Philip K. Dick, VALIS
"They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him."
"This is a mournful discovery.1)Those who agree with you are insane2)Those who do not agree with you are in power."
"Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back."
"The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them."
"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."
"The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque."
"Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked."