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Gods Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to…
- The point is always reached after which the gods no longer share their lives with mortal men and women, they die or wither away or…
- My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact,…
- When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but…
- When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.
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