One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.
What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.
It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.
Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.
Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.
You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.
The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.
The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.
There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.
I imagine that fish have no word for water.
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.
What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
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 it for a god).
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