Quotes About Gods

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.

If men could not trust in the divine agency of the gods, and if human perfection were no longer possible within the polis, the only conclusion seemed to be that man's fate was solely a personal matter.

With stupidity, even the gods struggle in vain.') Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)

The sacrilegious moment had come for counting and preserving; and the gods are insulted. Everything after this moment goes mysteriously awry, as heretofore it had gone mysteriously right.

Imagine then, by miracle, with me,(Ambiguous gifts, as what gods give must be)What could not possibly be there,And learn a style from a despair.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

I didn't believe in one god, I decided. I believed in many, all at war with one another, and lately it was the Tornado God who seemed to have the edge.

As its campfires glow against the dark, every culture tells stories to itself about how the gods lit up the morning sky and set the wheel of being into motion. The great scientific culture of the West--our culture--is no exception. The calculus is the story this world first told itself as it became the modern world.

The gods are very dangerous, and they can do bad things to human beings.

Sociobiology, then, is a religion: one which has genes as its gods. Yet

Some gods deserve atheists.

We already know how this one goes. Humans were once living a 'fairly comfortable life', subsisting from the blessings of Nature, but then we made our most fatal mistake. Lured by the prospect of a still easier life – of surplus and luxury, of living like gods – we had to go and tamper with that harmonious State of Nature, and thus unwittingly turned ourselves into slaves.

We are living in what the Greeks called the ????óÏ' (Kairos) – the right time – for a "metamorphosis of the gods," i.e. of the fundamental principles and symbols.' C. G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self (1958)

Los dioses enviaron desgracias a los mortales para que puedan contarlas y que en esta posibilidad la palabra encuentre su recurso infinito

The Sumerian tablets speak of E.DIN (The Abode of the Righteous Ones). This connects with the Sumerian name for their gods, DIN.GIR (the Righteous Ones of the Rockets). So the Sumerians spoke of Edin and Genesis speaks of the Garden of Eden. This was a centre for the gods, the Anunnaki.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad." (Euripides)