I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you… — John Gutfreund Copy Share Image
Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways… — Michael Kelleher Copy Share Image
The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity." — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with… — Mortimer Collins Copy Share Image
The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers? — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Maybe there are only atheists in foxholes. If the faithful truly and fully believe in a protective deity, why would they dive… — J. Anderson Thomson Copy Share Image
And for our unparalleled ingratitude to that Adorable Being Who has seated us in a land irradiated by the cheering beams of… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural, and it was a lesson… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The truth wears longer than all the gods; for it is only in the truth's service, and for love of it, that… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I have heard of that idea. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Any and all religions are real, the genuine article, to their practitioners. There can never be one religion, prophet, or savior that… — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod — Ovid Copy Share Image
Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are right and just in their actions. Abraham was willing to sacrifice… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
"Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
