Gods Quotes - page 3

ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls "God". (Anton LaVey)
The will is free Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful The seeds of godlike power are in us still Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will. View quote
Matthew Arnold
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. View quote
Larry Niven
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. View quote
Henry Rollins
It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing. View quote
James A. Michener
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. View quote
Aeschylus
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. View quote
Democritus
The universe is a machine for the making of Gods. View quote
Henri Bergson
The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. View quote
William Wordsworth
Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. (Terry Pratchett)
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. View quote
Terry Pratchett
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. View quote
Plautus
From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honor of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright. View quote
Vitruvius
For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods. View quote
Vitruvius
Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. View quote
Euripides
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. View quote
Euripides
If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 ... you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods... that's where we're headed. View quote
Michio Kaku
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. (Robert Collier)
Leave the rest to the gods. View quote
Horace
The gods behold all righteous actions. View quote
Ovid
Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game. View quote
Siegbert Tarrasch
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. View quote
Aristotle