Divinities Quotes
14 quotes by 12 authors
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Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth,…
— John Fowles
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The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his…
— Thorstein Veblen
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Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied…
— Ovid
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In the fabulous ages of ancient times the appellations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn were given to the planets as being the names…
— William Herschel
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You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O lions, and shake…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along the edges, (as…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all…
— Erasmus Darwin
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
— Isabel Allende
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own…
— Marquis de Sade
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Does not a great number a feelings determine a common feeling formed by the parts that compose it? Once Truth can no longer be known,…
— Sorin Cerin
Who Wrote These Divinities Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 14 Divinities Quotes as follows: