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Deities Quotes by Edward Gibbon
- 'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity…
- Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of…
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- Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man… — Francis Bacon
- Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
- As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules… — Annie Besant
- Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. — Ambrose Bierce
- Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce
- My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in… — John Henrik Clarke
- We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right… — John Henrik Clarke
- Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your… — John Henrik Clarke
- Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation… — Leonard Cohen
- The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must… — Louis Agassiz
- Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have… — Baron de Montesquieu
- Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess. — Pliny the Elder