Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato

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

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
Plotinus

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Aristotle

Men create the gods in their own image.
Xenophanes

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
Adela Florence Nicolson

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

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

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.
Timothy Radcliffe

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
Angela Carter

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

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
Jean Cocteau

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
Edmund Halley

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
Bodhidharma

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

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
Demosthenes

No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.
John Knox

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.
Democritus

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