Philip Pullman citáty

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„Ale nikdo nemůže změnit svou podstatu, máme moc jen nad svými činy.“

„Nebe je prázdné. Nevěděla jsem, jestli Bůh umřel, nebo jestli nikdy žádný neexistoval.“

„Všichni jsme podřízení svému osudu. Ale musíme se chovat, jako by tomu tak nebylo, jinak bychom zemřeli zoufalstvím.“

„Podle mého názoru nejsou dětské knihy o nic méně hodnotné, než knihy pro dospělé. To je to, po čem jsem vždy toužil - stejný přístup, pokud jde o hodnocení dětské literatury a také stejnou šanci získat pozornost.“

„Když chce člověk nakupovat lacino, je dobré být bohatý, třebaže to možná nedává moc smysl. Chudák musí vždycky zaplatit plnou cenu.“

„Představ si například, že hodíš mincí - může padnout hlava, anebo orel, a dokud neleží na zemi, nevíme, která strana bude nahoře. Když padne hlavou dospod, znamená to, že ztrácíme možnost, že by byl dole orel. Až do toho okamžiku byly obě možnosti rovnocenné. - Zlatý kompas“

„Amatéři si myslí, že kdyby byli neustále inspirováni, mohli by být profesionály. Profesionálové vědí, že kdyby se spoléhali na inspiraci, byli by amatéry.“

“Magisterium' and 'oblation' are church terms, they are terms of church organisation. These are administrative things. These are bureaucratic things. How can an attack on those be construed as an attack on God? These are human things which human beings have constructed in order to wield power. That's not a contentious thing to say. That is simply true. These are forms of political organisation and no more than that.”

“Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by.”

“In Lyra’s heart, revulsion struggled with compassion, and compassion won.”

“Now here are these children who have gone through great adventures and learned wonderful things and would therefore be in a position to do great things to help other people. But they're taken away. He doesn't let them. For the sake of taking them off to a perpetual school holiday or something, he kills them all in a train crash. I think that's ghastly. It's a horrible message.”

“She said that all the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. She and the rebel angels, the followers of wisdom, have always tried to open minds; the Authority and his churches have always tried to keep them closed.”

“He'd learned that the object of a school fight was not to gain points for style but to force your enemy to give in, which meant hurting him more than he was hurting you. He knew that you had to be willing to hurt someone else, too, and he'd found out that not many people were, when it came to it; but he knew that he was.
So this wasn't unfamiliar to him, but he hadn't fought against a nearly grown man armed with a knife before, and at all costs he must keep the man from picking it up now that he'd dropped it.”

“So they had language, and they had fire, and they had society. And about then she found an adjustment being made in her mind, as the word creatures became the word people. These beings weren’t human, but they were people, she told herself; it’s not them, they’re us.”

“When you stopped believing in God, did you stop believing in good and evil?”

“Doesn’t it scare you, having your death close by all the time?”

“Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out like candles, as if they’d never existed. At the moment all Will’s choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.”