#terry pratchett quote
Other philosophers asked questions like: Is Truth Beauty, and is Beauty Truth? and: Is Reality Created by the Observer? But Didactylos posed the famous philosophical conundrum: “Yes, But What’s it ReallyAll About, Then, When You Get Right Down To It, I MeanReally!”
His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools - the Cynics, the Stoics, and the Epicureans - and he summoned up all three of them in his famous phrase, “You can’t trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there’s nothing you can do about it, so let’s have a drink. Mine’s a double, if you’re buying. Thank you. And a packet of nuts.“
Terry Pratchett - “Small Gods”
People have reality-dampers.
It’s a popular fact that nine-tenth of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary grey goo if its only purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.
Itis used. And one of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary and turn the unusual into the usual.
Because if this was not the case, then human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing big stupid grins, similar to those worn by certain remote tribesmen who occasionally get raided by the authorities and have the contents of their plastic greenhouses very seriously inspected. They’d say “Wow!” a lot. And no one would do much work.
Terry Pratchett - “Small Gods”
Where do gods come from? Where do they go?
Some attempts to answer this was made by the religious philosopher Koomi of Smale in his book “Ego-Video Liber Deorum”, which translates into vernacular roughly as “Gods: A Spotter’s Guide.”
Terry Pratchett - “Small Gods”
There was, there always was, at the start and the finish … the Code. They lived by the code. You followed the Code, and you became part of the Code for those who followed you. The code wasit. Without the Code, you weren’t a hero. You were just a thug in a loin cloth.
The code was quite clear. One brave man against seven … won. They knew it was true. In the past they’d all relied on it. The higher the odds, the greater the victory. That was the Code.
Terry Pratchett - “The Last Hero”
A VERY GOOD LIFE LIVED INDEED, ESMARALDA.
‘Thank you,’ said Granny. ‘I did my best,’
MORE THAN YOUR BEST, said Death. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WATCHING YOUR CHOSEN SUCCESSOR. WE HAVE MET BEFORE.
‘She’s a good witch to be sure,’ said the shade of Granny Weatherwax, ‘I have no doubts whatsoever.’
YOU ARE TAKING THIS VERY WELL, ESME WEATHERWAX.
‘It’s an inconvenience, true enough, and I don’t like it at all, but I know that you do it for everyone, Mister Death. Is there any other way?’
NO, THERE ISN’T, I’m AFRAID. WE ARE ALL FLOATING IN THE WINDS OF TIME. BUT YOUR CANDLE, MISTRESS WEATHERWAX, WILL FLICKER FOR SOME TIME BEFORE IT GOES OUT – A LITTLE REWARD FOR A LIFE WELL LIVED. FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…
Terry Pratchett - The Shepherds Crown”
