Gods Quotes - page 4

I am quite ready to acknowledge ... that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead. (Socrates)
We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe. View quote
Manly Palmer Hall
Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion. View quote
Cyprian
He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods. View quote
Maxwell Anderson
At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy. View quote
Leon Bourgeois
We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods. View quote
Donnie Wahlberg
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society. View quote
William Robertson Smith
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons. View quote
Pythagoras
Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas. View quote
Pythagoras
Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers. View quote
Pythagoras
There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras. (Pythagoras)
Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods. View quote
Pythagoras
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper. From quotations which I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle. View quote
Charles Darwin
The universe is a womb for the genesis of gods. View quote
David Zindell
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates. View quote
Howard Zinn
All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods. View quote
William James
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge. View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
There is one god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor in thought. View quote
Xenophanes
John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains and he withdrew his fire until the day when men withdraw their vultures. View quote
Ayn Rand
I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Be warned; learn ye to be just and not to slight the gods! (Virgil)
Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what does the work of a fig-tree is a fig-tree, and that what does the work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work of a man is a man. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected. View quote
Marcus Aurelius