Gods Quotes

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Aldous Huxley

Power, Give, Strings

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.
Henry Rollins

Time, Great, Men

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.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Truth, Another, Often

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Humanity, Cannot

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Unless, Appear, Annoys

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, Away, Wine

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Epicurus

Power, Himself, Pray

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, Whole, Universe

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.
Tom Hiddleston

Humility, Lovers, Drama

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
David Bowie

Life, Mind, Cannot

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
Terry Pratchett

Person, Bastards, Shouting

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
Jack Kerouac

Respect, Long, Humility

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
Samuel Butler

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
Henry Miller

Men, Become, Surely

Leave the rest to the gods.
Horace

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.
Morihei Ueshiba

Fear, Whatever, Face

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus

Death, Desire, Gifts

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
Robert Green Ingersoll

God, Made, Poor

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Algernon Charles Swinburne

Life, Love, Men

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope

Men, Best, Pride

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
E. O. Wilson

Mind, Human, Biology

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Zora Neale Hurston

Else, Somebody, Anybody

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
Terry Pratchett

Two, Find, Playing

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich Schiller

Stupidity, Against, Themselves

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
Thomas B. Macaulay

Die, Odds, Fathers

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.
George Santayana

Men, True, Human

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.
George Santayana

Great, Fear, True

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Cannot, Themselves, Gifts

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