God Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“When Plutarch says that a city might sooner subsist without a geographical site than without belief in the gods, his words would not have…

— Michael Oakeshott

But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“This night shalt thou know the favour of the Gods, and behold on Parnassus those dreams which the Gods have through ages sent to…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Master Palaemon's hand, dry and wrinkled as a mummy's, groped until it found mine. "Among the initiates of religion it is said, 'You are…

— Gene Wolfe

“Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there…

— Protagoras

“I have had another thought on such fates that denies neither gods nor man. Perhaps, instead of controlling every step, the gods have started…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Chabrias, ever preoccupied to offer the gods the worship due them, was disturbed by the progress of sects of this kind among the populace…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“It is solemn duty of the philosopher to piss on all that you hold dear and sacred, to show you that your gods are…

— Hanzi Freinacht

“You may be sure that we are as well aware as you of the difficulty of contending against your power and fortune, unless the…

— Thucydides

“If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or…

— Baron D. Holbach

“...There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them, and impatient…

— Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

“The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods,…

— William Blake