Terry Pratchett Quotes

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

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.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different modes and forms that the desire for truth is part of human nature itself.

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.

I have often said that philosophy is better at questions than at answers – and that's nontrivial. They don't think it's their job to understand how things actually work, whereas I think that should be the job of philosophers.

Philosophy, as the modern world knows it, is only intellectual club-swinging.

He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

Philosophy is talk on a cereal box.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

That's something I learned as a philosophy major: The philosophy ethos is, always question, never rest.

Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.

I'm interested in philosophy, I studied it, and I also admit I try to read things that are way above me. I have a limit: I take what I need from it, and I do find that some of my favourite philosophical writings tend to be poppier. I admire smart people who are able to describe things simply or in a human, readable way.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?