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“People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”

Source: Pyramids

“Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.”

Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky

Source: A Hat Full of Sky

“This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

“Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.”

Terry Pratchett book Making Money

Source: Making Money

“This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.

(Except that of course you can't have afrontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate…)”

Terry Pratchett book Moving Pictures

Source: Moving Pictures

“Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.”

Terry Pratchett book Going Postal

Source: Going Postal

“What is magic?
There is the wizard's explanation… wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

“Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

“It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.”

Terry Pratchett book Lords and Ladies

Source: Lords and Ladies

“People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

“Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.”

Terry Pratchett book Wyrd Sisters

Source: Wyrd Sisters

“Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha."
"I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

“I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point.”

Terry Pratchett book Unseen Academicals

Source: Unseen Academicals

“There’s lots of people will help you with alcohol business, but there’s no one out there arranging little meetings where you can stand up and say, ‘My name is Sam Vimes and I’m a really suspicious bastard.”

Terry Pratchett book Feet of Clay

Source: Feet of Clay

“The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.”

Terry Pratchett book Making Money

Source: Making Money

“Personal isn't the same as important.”

Terry Pratchett book Men at Arms

Variant: Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.
Source: Men at Arms