Source: The Color of Magic
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
Often misattributed to but inspired by GK Chesterton:
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
Coraline (2002)
“To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs…”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.”
Source: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
from the play "God".
Without Feathers (1975)
XII. The origin of evil things; and that there is no positive evil.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Context: If evil exists it must exist either in Gods or minds or souls or bodies. It does not exist in any God, for all god is good. If anyone speaks of a "bad mind" he means a mind without mind. If of a bad soul, he will make the soul inferior to body, for no body in itself is evil. If he says that evil is made up of soul and body together, it is absurd that separately they should not be evil, but joined should create evil.
