Quotes About Gods

The gods were great, but what good was greatness if you didn't love?

As such, he is sometimes the messenger of the gods and sometimes the guide of souls, carrying the dead into the underworld or opening the tomb to release them when they must walk among us.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so there is a fundamental conflict. That said, some scientists find religion useful and perhaps even fulfilling.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

By giving material expression to force-forms in space, the Greeks gave divine spiritual beings the opportunity of using these material forms. It is no figure of speech but a fact when we say that gods came down at that time into the Greek temples in order to be among human beings on the physical plane.

So you could value your own life, replied the Titan. Before that you were under the gods' thumbs, doing their bidding without caring if you lived or died. When you could see that life was worth living by your fear of the unknown that was death, then you could really make things happen.

Los dioses han ocultado lo que hace vivir a los hombres.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

Regarde, spectateur, remontée à bloc, de telle sorte que le ressort se déroule avec lenteur tout le long d'une vie humaine, une des plus parfaites machines construites par les dieux infernaux pour l'anéantissement mathématique d'un mortel.

The gods of this land are monsters.

When innocent and virtuous men liked to have gods as witnesses of their actions, they lived with them in the same huts. But having soon become evil, they grew weary of these inconvenient spectators and relegated them to magnificent temples.

Una vez que ha estallado la libertad en el alma de un hombre, los dioses no pueden nada más contra ese hombre. Pues es un asunto de hombres, y los otros hombres —sólo a ellos— les corresponde dejarlo correr o estrangularlo

In my country there are no gods left. The Romans have driven them out. There are some who say that they have hidden themselves in the mountains, but I do not believe it. Three nights I have been on the mountains seeking them everywhere. I did not find them. And at last I called them by their names, and they did not come. I think they are dead.

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

Cuando los hombres inocentes y virtuosos gustaban de tener a los dioses por testigos de sus actos, vivían juntos en las mismas cabañas; pero en seguida se volvieron malvados, se hastiaron de esos incómodos espectadores y los relegaron dentro de templos magníficos. Finalmente los expulsaron de ellos para establecerse ellos mismos; o, al menos, los templos de los dioses no se distinguieron ya de las casas de los ciudadanos. Fue

Si hubiera un pueblo de dioses, se gobernaría democráticamente. Un gobierno tan perfecto no conviene a los hombres.

Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.

Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.

To the gods belong power, and to us the work of our hands.

That is the gods' work, spinning threads of death through the lives of mortal men, an all to make a song for those to come.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.