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Human Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do,' but in this case I would only entertain offers from…
- There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.
- Humans need fantasy in order to be human.
- 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 ugly, we are…
- They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then…
- If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.
- Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
- The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.
- The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do…
- Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
- As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to chops and sausages.…
- Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.
- The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really…
- Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.
- Dogs are not like cats, who amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.…
- They know that people need witches; they need the unofficial people who understand the difference between right and wrong, and when right is wrong and…
- His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that…
- Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.
- The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually…
- Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows…
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle