Gods Quotes

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider… — Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly,… — Charles A. Beard
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. — Aeschylus
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? — Aeschylus
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain? — Aeschylus
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental… — David Bowie
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most… — Dan Brown
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be… — Leon Battista Alberti
And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods. — Samuel Butler
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end. — Taylor Caldwell
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. — Joseph Campbell
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own… — Albert Camus
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. — Emile M. Cioran
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. — Jean Cocteau

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