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Well, the way I see it, logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers. Didactylos, Terry Pratchett, Small Gods original post

[There] are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about

“All right,” said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.”    REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS

DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES Terry Pratchett, The Truth (via theshepherdscrown) original post

Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost

Giving in for one night and saying the hell with it, I’ll start again tomorrow, is fine, and you should never worry about doing it. The world won’t end because you say the hell with it and get comfortable for

“Miss Pearce!” he called out, “Kindly send out a revised bill would you to our dear Mrs Sauskind. The new bill reads ‘To: saving human race from total extinction – no charge’.” He put on his hat and left

Most of his personal eternity — not really eternity, but a few billion years could easily seem like it — had been spent wandering across interminable mud, wading through ceaseless seas, watching with stunned horror when the slimy things with legs suddenly had begun to crawl

We are, all of us, mere utensils, stuck in drawers of our own making, and none more than I. If you could find time in your busy schedule to unstick me in my hour of need, you will not find me wanting in gratitude.

A lot of my work over the last fifteen or twenty years could be defined as volunteer labour in the attention economy. Finding things and showing them to whatever audience I have, in order to use the audience I’ve been given for

People on the side of The People always ended up dissapointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were

They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today. from Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett (via

If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they

This will become, in time, the axe of someone’s grandfather. And no doubt over the years it will need a new handle or a new blade and over the centuries the shape will change in line with fashion, but it will always be,

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. – Marcus Aurelius Via tinyapps.org original post

But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality. Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (via georginakincaid) original post

Well, there was a bit of a fracas, as we say, and it turned out that a man had a dog, a half dead thing according to bystanders, and he was trying to get it to stop pulling at its leash, and when it

Cats are like witches. They don’t fight to kill, but to win. There is a difference. There’s no point in killing an opponent. That way, they won’t know they’ve lost, and to be a real winner you have to have

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man (via the-death-of-rats) original post

I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald, I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with

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Tak does not require that we think of Him. Only that we think. Grag Bashfulsson, Thud! (via hvkryter) original post

It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it. Terry Pratchett. (via mysharona1987) original post

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have