"Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion"

Terry Pratchett Literature See all quotes by Terry Pratchett →

React to this quote

More by Terry Pratchett

“Mort isn't fashionable UK movie material -- there're no parts in it for Hugh or Emma, it's not set in Sheffield, and no one shoves drugs up their bum...”

“My programming language was solder.”

“The sign outside the shop said Apothecary, which meant that the shop was owned by a sort of early chemist, who would give you herbs and things until you got better or at least stopped getting any worse.”

“Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged.”

“If I heeded all the advice I've had over the years, I'd have written 18 books about Rincewind.”

“I always thought Detritus would be good at: "I bet you're wondrin' how many time I fired dis crossbow”

Resonant Thoughts

"When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons."

— Golda Meir

Politics1898–1978

#religion

"Мельницы богов / Windmills of the Gods"

— Sidney Sheldon

Literature1917–2007

#religion

"It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind comb…"

— Henry David Thoreau

Literature1817–1862

#religion

"The authors of the book “The Universe Next Door” from New Scientist state, “Most hierarchical systems tend to become top-heavy, expensive and incapable of responding to change.” Our current America fi…"

— Lee Camp

Literature1980

#art