Athena Quote by Ashezi

“Our priestesses have always taught that divinity, by virtue of its great power, must encompass both beauty and terror.”

— Laini Taylor

“Suddenly the hall rang with Theseus’s laughter. He held his sides, threw back his head, and brayed. “Ah, Lady Helen, the gods have been…

— Esther M. Friesner

“If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or…

— Baron D. Holbach

“As for us, we who do not believe what these women believe, but live like them by faith, never could look without a sort…

— Victor Hugo

“After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the…

— Gary Gordon

“With all my soul I longed to be in a position to join with the people in performing the rites of their faith, but…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He had thought then of the nature of justice as he had come to know it: of his father as a pagan god, and…

— J.K. Rowling

“But grant me from time to time—if there are divine goddesses in the realm beyond good and evil—grant me the sight, but one glance…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I had not fooled myself with false hope. I was a goddess, and he a mortal, and both of us were imprisoned. But I…

— Madeline Miller

“Truth is not of this world; and they were fools who looked for her in the bottom of a well; her temple is the…

— William Mudford

“She also stirred a sort of envy in him by telling him that during the Two Minutes Hate her great difficulty was to avoid…

— George Orwell

“The female statue is the Greek goddess of truth, and the two twins beside her are the Greek gods of fear and terror.”

— Bella Forrest