Terry Pratchett Quotes

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality. So the work is often a general koan into how we go about forming this world in which we live, in particular with seeing.

You wouldn't know a clue if it danced in front of you with a T-Shirt that read 'I'm a clue

You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.

Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen of your thinking. You notice it as you become more awake.

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us -- its size, motion and meaning.

... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses

Now, it's so sacred. It's how I see the world. I can't help but look at people, their physicality, and how they move. It's how I see everything.

It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there.

Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.

The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.

People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

It's okay if you can't see what you're doing, cuz even when your eyes are open, you can't see what you're doing.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.