Philosophy Quote by Terry Pratchett — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Sooner or later it'd get to you. Death was fascinated by humans, and study was never a one-way thing. A man might spend his life peering at the private life of elementary particles and then find he either knew who he was or where he was, but not both.”

“Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.”

“The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.”

“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.”

“The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”

“What is this slow blue dream of living,”

“И явился Зевс Асклепию таким, каким являлся титанам в битве: огромный, со страшилищем-эгидой на груди и перуном в руке, средь громов и молний. Притихло все живое в лесах и горах Пелиона, укрываясь от блеска и грохота громовых ударов.”

“Don’t reject something just because it seems strange. It’s comfort that will kill you in the end.”

“As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.”

“I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.”