Small Gods Quotes

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

topic:death time

“Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

topic:fear obedience

“The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

topic:understanding philosophy

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

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

topic:reality

“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!”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

topic:religion nature

“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

topic:religion work

“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

topic:religion morality

“Words are the litmus paper of the mind.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

topic:words mind

“What’s a philosopher? . . . Someone who’s bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

topic:pain work philosophy

“sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.”

― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

topic:stupidity leadership

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