Deities Quote by Plutarch Download Open image “As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."” — Plutarch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deities Genius God Intelligence Men Mind Psychology
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity. — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“We are intellectual beings- we can think, reason and solve problems;like God.” — Moroaswi Tumiso Victor Copy Share Image
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great spiritual geniuses, whether it was Moses, Buddha, Plato, Socrates, Jesus, or Emerson… have taught man to look within himself to find God. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it… — William Crashaw Copy Share Image
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are." — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
No parent can consistently teach faith in Christ who profanes the name of Deity. Profanity is never heard in the well-ordered home. Swearing is… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this apartment is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
Since we have been out of balance so heavily towards the male, it is going to be the feminine energy which will now move… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
