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Gods Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
- The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why…
- You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know…
- As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property…
- No one suspects the days to be gods.
- Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
- Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.
- Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
- If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.
- Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore…
- If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
- Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.
- Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
- The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung…
- The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will…
- Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be…
- I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence and…
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