Quotes About Gods

Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]

There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

Fear first made gods in the world.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

In a world thronged with monsters and with gods, we know little peace of mind. There is hardly a single action we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul. Whereas what we ought to regret is that we no longer possess the spontaneity which made us perform them. In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.

Now that Olympus no longer exists, its inhabitants dwell upon the earth.

To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship I answer Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

Victrix causa deis placuit sed Victa Caton.

The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the vanquished pleased Cato.

Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who determine what is needed for the welfare of the whole universe, of which you are a part.

Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the proper time to demonstrate my virility.

The gods have provided me with clear and compelling signs of what it means to live in conformity to nature. They did their part. So far as their gifts, aid, and inspiration are concerned, nothing prevented me from following the path prescribed by nature. If from time to time I have strayed from this path, the fault lies with me and with my failure to heed the gods' signs, or rather, their explicit instructions.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

Adventure, and not being provided for so cold a Voyage, were all frozen to death; the young Lady onely, by the light of her Beauty, the heat of her Youth, and Protection of the Gods, remaining alive: Neither was it a wonder that the men did freeze to death; for they were not onely driven to the very end or point of the Pole of that World, but even to another Pole of another World, which

fear and wonder makes gods.

Even the gods love jokes.

Will you walk the road to your destiny, or must the Gods drag you to it unwilling?

The reptilian race, or Lizzies as we affectionately call them, are an integral part of your ancestral line. . . . Understand that the reptilian energies are creator gods. They are master geneticists

Are the Gods real or is Ike Karton just crazy? And the answer is: Yes.

Modern man became a Prometheus, believing himself a god capable of transforming anything and everything at will. "When God has become invisible behind the world," Voegelin said, "the things of the world become new gods." Once this is understood,