Gods Quotes - page 2

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. View quote
Iris Murdoch
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. View quote
Cyril Connolly
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. View quote
George Santayana
Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director. View quote
David Mamet
Those whom the gods love grow young. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. View quote
Albert Camus
And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. (Max Beerbohm)
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. View quote
William Shakespeare
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. View quote
Sophocles
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter. View quote
Buster Keaton
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods. View quote
William Hazlitt
To ignore the true God is in fact only half an evil; atheism is worth more than the piety bestowed on mythical gods. View quote
Emmanuel Levinas
Ye gods annihilate but space and time. And make two lovers happy. (Alexander Pope)
Ambition first sprung from your bless'd abodes; The glorious fault of angels and of gods. View quote
Alexander Pope
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind. View quote
Dion Fortune
All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator. View quote
Dion Fortune