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“Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

“One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.”

Terry Pratchett book I Shall Wear Midnight

Source: I Shall Wear Midnight

“Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.”

Terry Pratchett

“It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.”

Terry Pratchett book Jingo

Source: Jingo

“The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.”

Terry Pratchett book Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

Terry Pratchett book Equal Rites

Source: Equal Rites

“There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.”

Terry Pratchett book Going Postal

Source: Going Postal

“When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.”

Terry Pratchett book Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

“Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But… ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just… well, things happening one after another.”

Terry Pratchett

“It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave… you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.”

Terry Pratchett book Small Gods

Source: Small Gods

“When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.”

Terry Pratchett book Carpe Jugulum

Source: Carpe Jugulum

“Things are not as they seem. They are what they are.”

Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time

Source: Thief of Time

“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

“Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.”

Terry Pratchett book Wintersmith

Source: Wintersmith

“But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.”

Terry Pratchett

Source: The Color of Magic

“One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.”

Terry Pratchett book Guards! Guards!

Source: Guards! Guards!

“When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.”

Terry Pratchett book The Truth

Source: The Truth