Gods Quotes - page 8

Speak of the Gods as they are. (Bias of Priene)
Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws. Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestiges of the false Gods, itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a Star, to adore the Saviour of the world in His cradle. View quote
Albert Pike
What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine? View quote
John Brunner
Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. View quote
Stephen King
The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly. View quote
Ray Bradbury
I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink. View quote
Aeschylus
Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small. View quote
Carl Sagan
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men. View quote
Carl Sagan
War is the father and king of all some he has made gods, and some men some slaves and some free. View quote
Heraclitus
All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet. (Carl Jung)
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. View quote
Carl Jung
Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. View quote
Thucydides
Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals. View quote
Steven Erikson
Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made? View quote
Steven Erikson
Chremylus: [Wealth], the most excellent of all the gods. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus) View quote
Aristophanes
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? View quote
Aristophanes
Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife. View quote
H. L. Mencken
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard. (Hesiod)
Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men. View quote
Hesiod
Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science. View quote
Jim Morrison
Who has not found the heaven below Will fail of it above. Gods residence is next to mine His furniture is love. View quote
Emily Dickinson
An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. As has been said before, we are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. View quote
Richard Dawkins