564 Quotes by philip pullman

Make a noise in there and I won’t help you. You’re on your own.

Take the anchor, there. The first meaning of that is hope, because hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don’t give way.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don’t know.

There are two great powers,” the man said, “and they’ve been fighting since time began. Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit.

But there had always been ghosts in the mountains, everyone knew that.

I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all.

It was nothing more than what it was.

I think we need to tell each other everything we’ve found out. And it’ll take us a good long time, and we might as well keep our hands busy while we’re doing it, so.

If you can’t think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.