Celestial Quote by David Hume

We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus,…

— Julian Huxley

“Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for…

— Emil Cioran

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.

— Thomas Carlyle

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian…

— Ouida

“We know of course that the whole point is, the saints are not gods and never have been gods; even if they have often…

— Sigrid Undset

“Christians who give themselves as living sacrifices and offer their worship in this way are people with a high standard of discipline. They are…

— R.C. Sproul

“The twelve gods of Olympus aren’t entities we worship. They’re nothing more than fallen angels who turned away from the Creator for their own…

— Elisabeth Naughton

“Here Herodotus can be of some help again. “As to the customs of the Persians, I know them to be these. It is not…

— Charles River Editors

They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the…

— Lester Bangs

“In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names' ending in OS and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to…

— Alexandre Dumas

Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity.

— Rollo May

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have…

— Henry Fielding