Thats how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.
Interpretation
To cope with the vastness of life, we should focus on manageable parts rather than the entirety.
This quote by Terry Pratchett suggests that the overwhelming nature of infinity can be tamed by breaking it down into smaller, more digestible pieces. Instead of being daunted by the endless possibilities and challenges that life presents, we can find peace and survive by addressing them bit by bit, allowing us to navigate through existence with greater ease and understanding.
In practice
In a speech about tackling large projects, one could say, 'That's how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.'
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
If Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.
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