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1908 Gods quotes by 980 unique authors
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If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
— Euripides
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Men create the gods after their own images.
— Aristotle
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All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Fear first created the gods.
— George Santayana
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What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
— Joseph Campbell
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When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then…
— Elbert Hubbard
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If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of…
— Albert Einstein
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For the first time in the history of the world, Buddhism proclaimed a salvation which each individual could gain from him or herself, in this…
— Aldous Huxley
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Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?
— Dan Barker
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Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never…
— Isaac Asimov
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...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape…
— Lucretius
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When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would…
— Rudyard Kipling
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The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even…
— William H. Gass
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If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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If you expect a bad lie for even one second, the gods will know it and give you a bad lie.
— Michelle Wie
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The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
— Epicurus
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There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition,…
— Steve Perry
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Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
— Horace
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The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.
— Janet Morris
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Makes you wonder if the gods are always right.
— Janet Morris
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Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had…
— Janet Morris
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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when…
— Aleister Crowley
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