All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods. — William James Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Immortality is for the gods. Frankly, I don't know how they stand it.” — Lisa Huang Fleischman Copy Share Image
“We become gods when we realise that a part of the universal divinity lives within us;” — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever? — Sappho Copy Share Image
“And may the gods keep us from a world where only the people who deserve love get it.” — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been. — Empedocles Copy Share Image
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide. — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
“That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That’ll teach… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“We are the Gods, who create Gods, and then we turn into worshipers seeking comfort and solace from those Gods that we… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods have become like us. Ergo,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“People don't believe in gods because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of someone allowing all the terrible things in… — Kaitlin Bevis Copy Share Image
Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close… — Plato Copy Share Image
Though I don't have any serious argument with Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods', I believe that Americans cease to be Europeans - the… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We, in our less than divine wisdom but apparently quite divine powers, are now transforming the planet like an Olympian might have… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Men will always seek gods in whose name they may perform great deeds or commit unspeakable atrocities, even when those gods are… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Humans are defined by their pain. Gods are defined by their happiness. Heroes are defined by their ability to revel in both… — Bishop Harber Copy Share Image
“As he finally stopped fighting sleep, he wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or… — Ellen O'Connell Copy Share Image
If I were one of the gods who just wound up supervising humans, I'd want to influence the decision-makers to live according… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image