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Gods Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
- Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
- 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,…
- There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory…
- Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol,…
- Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can…
- But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticize the government. Once abolish the God, and the…
More Gods Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — 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… — 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… — David Bowie
- Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods.… — Dan Brown
- When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I… — 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