Terry Pratchett Quotes

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

We in this entertainment industry try to act like we're so super powerful. we're not being honest, because we're human, and in our humanity there's a little fear.

The structure of society throughout the world has been created by individuals

Power resides where men believe power resides.

Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.

How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy, or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.

Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.

Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

It obviously makes a difference whether we consider ourselves as pawns in a game whose rules we call reality or as players of the game who know that the rules are ‘real’ only to the extent that we have created or accepted them, and that we can change them.

Reality is a creation of our excesses.

Power is founded upon opinion.