Deities Quote by Sophocles Download Open image “Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.” — Sophocles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deities Firsts Harm Learning Men Misfortunes Understanding
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is… — Homer Copy Share Image
A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods. — Plato Copy Share Image
The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Once man loses his faculty of indifference he becomes a potential murderer; once he transforms his idea into a god the consequences are incalculable.… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Either harming other people is wrong, in which case God is unnecessary, or harming other people is acceptable, in which case God's admonitions are… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Upon my word, just see how mortal men always put the blame on us gods! We are the source of evil, so they say… — Homer Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is… — Sophocles 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
