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God Quotes by Plato
- The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of…
- He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.
- We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far…
- God is not the author of all things, but of good only.
- All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is…
- Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all…
- At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred…
- Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?
- God ever geometrizes.
- Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty,…
- God is truth and light his shadow.
- I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
- The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
- God forever geometrizes.
- Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait,…
- The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger…
- In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and…
- The God of Love lives in a state of need.
- All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great…
- Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi