Humans Quotes by Terry Pratchett

Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.

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Things have no power that humans don't put there.

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And what would humans be without love?" RARE, said Death.

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Humans need fantasy in order to be human.

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Humans can think inhuman thoughts.

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Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.

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Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to…

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If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.

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Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

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Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

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Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.

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There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

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Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving

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The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist…

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I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. "Yes of course, I…

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Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors…

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“A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they…

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It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a…

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His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity…

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Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some…

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The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best…

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The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder…

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They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin…

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Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's one reason why most humans hardly…

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Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans…

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Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water…

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As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to…

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“That’s why we all hate ’em, he thought. Those expressionless eyes watch us, those big faces turn to follow us, and doesn’t…

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The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been…

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It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not…

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Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the…

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In my early teens, I read every bound volume of the magazine Punch. Every writer of any distinction in the English language,…

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The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither…

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“His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostrils snuffed up the…

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Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.

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Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We know we are. Ever see…

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I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or…

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One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and…

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Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched…

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I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do,' but in this case I would only…

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