The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.
Terry PratchettMots clés humor
One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.
Terry PratchettMots clés nation
Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.
Terry PratchettMots clés creationism
No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled.
"Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?"
"What?"
"Oh, you'd like something simpler?
Mots clés humor absurd police interrogation
What’s this here,” he said suspiciously, “about us got to give you faggots?”
Oh, we have to have them,” said Newt, “We burn them.”
Say what?”
We burn them.”
The guard’s face broadened into a grin. And they’d told him England was soft. “Right on!” he said
The Ephebians believed that every man should have the vote (provided that he wasn't poor, foreign, nor disqualified by reason of being mad, frivolous, or a woman). Every five years someone was elected to be Tyrant, provided he could prove that he was honest, intelligent, sensible, and trustworthy. Immediately after he was elected, of course, it was obvious to everyone that he was a criminal madman and totally out of touch with the view of the ordinary philosopher in the street looking for a towel. And then five years later they elected another one just like him, and really it was amazing how intelligent people kept on making the same mistakes.
Terry PratchettMots clés voting-rights
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
Terry PratchettMots clés academia sobriety exams
Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.
Terry PratchettMots clés humor
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
Terry PratchettMots clés humor einstein god gaiman
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.
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