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Small Gods (Discworld, #13) QUOTES

Small Gods (Discworld, #13) QUOTES

1 " Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

2 " What's a philosopher?' said Brutha.
Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

3 " The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

4 " We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

5 " Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

6 " What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

7 " Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

8 " 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. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

9 " The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god). "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

10 " There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

11 " The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

12 " 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 , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

13 " Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

14 " It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying “Wow,” a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this from happening. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

15 " Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time... "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

16 " There’s no point in believing in things that exist. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

17 " Gods didn’t mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief … "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

18 " Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

19 " Around the Godde there forms a Shelle of prayers and Ceremonies and Buildings and Priestes and Authority, until at Last the Godde Dies. Ande this maye notte be noticed. "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

20 " He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of their ways... "

― Terry Pratchett , Small Gods (Discworld, #13)