Gods Quotes - page 10

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness? (Homer)
Think not to match yourself against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals. View quote
Homer
Ah how shameless - the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share. View quote
Homer
Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
My merry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse: They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse! View quote
George Peele
I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind. View quote
Julian Jaynes
The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods. View quote
Julian Jaynes
The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge. View quote
Jack McDevitt
The gods have their own rules. View quote
Ovid
All the lessons of history in four sentences: 1) Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power; 2) The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small; 3) The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; 4) When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. View quote
Charles A. Beard
And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer. Thus two by two we wrangle and blunder about the earth, And that body we share we may not spare; but the Gods have need of mirth. (James Branch Cabell)
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me. View quote
Sophocles
Terror is trump. Methods of common brutal suppression are considered sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are saints, and from the district leader upwards there are only Gods! View quote
Friedrich Kellner
If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms tyrannical: only brute force (or seductive deception) can then bend the different moralities so that they fit the prescriptions of a single ethical system. And indeed, the idea of universal laws of nature and society arose in connection with a life-and-death battle: the battle that gave Zeus the power over the Titans and all other gods and thus turned his laws into the laws of the universe. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. View quote
John Milton
I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods. View quote
Winston Churchill
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.... And if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empires beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the fight, until in Gods own time the new world in its power and might steps forth to the rescue and liberation of the old. View quote
Winston Churchill
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men. View quote
Aldous Huxley
This is Italy, land sacred to the Gods. (Pliny the Elder)
How sad, ye gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps. You will know it when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it too when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; it's mists, it's swamps and it's rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
The gods too are fond of a joke. View quote
Aristotle
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me - the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love - He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions. View quote
Thomas Edison
Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding? View quote
Socrates