The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pr... - Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
"The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to."
"The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to."
"We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork."
"The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish."
"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."
"But is all this true?"said Brutha.Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.""You mean you don't KNOW it's true?"said Brutha."I THINK it might be,"said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about."
"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."