Ancient greece Quote by Athenagoras

“It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the non-punishment of…

— J. M. Robertson

“The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“After they had lost the war with Sparta the Athenians looked for someone to blame. They blamed the old teacher, Socrates. Being a rather…

— Terry Deary

“In a way, it's nice to know there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For…

— Rick Riordan

“But, hey, none of the Greek gods is.”

— Rick Riordan

“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born of the…

— Helen Morales

“Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need…

— Emil Cioran

“He was like some tragic figure in Greek mythology whose offenses against the gods had caused them to design for him this exquisite torture:…

— Michael Lewis

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

— Alexander Herzen

The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were…

— Margaret Visser

“Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there…

— Protagoras

“I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate…

— Demosthenes