Terry Pratchett Quotes

You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

Reality is a question of perspective.

Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

What you see is what you see.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand.

Reason is the illusion of reality

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.