Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
Norman Mailer

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Richard Dawkins

We are making gods out of global celebrities.
Elizabeth Joan Smith

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

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

We're entertainers, while people want us to be gods.
Donnie Wahlberg

Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham

Were there no women, men might live like gods.
Thomas Dekker

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
Leon Battista Alberti

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
Pearl S. Buck

When men make gods, there is no God!
Eugene O'Neill

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde

Where no gods are, spectres rule.
Novalis

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.
Richard Stallman

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
Aeschylus

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
Aeschylus

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

Whom the gods love dies young.
Menander

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly

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