# Quote — Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

> We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

- Author: [Philip K. Dick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick.md)
- Book: [The Man in the High Castle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-man-in-the-high-castle.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-man-in-the-high-castle/we-do-not

## More from this book

> You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-man-in-the-high-castle/youre-killing-yourself.md)

> [Fiction] Appeals to the base lusts that hide in everyone no matter how respectable on the surface.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-man-in-the-high-castle/fiction-appeals-to-the.md)

> There is evil! It's actual, like cement.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/the-man-in-the-high-castle/there-is-evil.md)