“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
— Terry Pratchett
“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”
— Terry Pratchett
“One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”
— Terry Pratchett
“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.”
— Terry Pratchett
“People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.”
— Terry Pratchett
“In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
— Terry Pratchett
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
— Terry Pratchett
“Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.”
— Terry Pratchett
“Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.”
— Terry Pratchett
“Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.”
— Terry Pratchett