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Quotes About Gods

Life is your own movie. Not Gods.
~ Max Basstanie
In the matter of spirit follow the Gods, in the matter of work follow the heroes.
~ Amit Kalantri
It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed by sentient planets.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Humor, motivations, moral,gods,energy,secrecy
~ Albert Einstein
I am Isis, Queen of this country. I was instructed by Mercury. No one can destroy the laws which I have established. I am the eldest daughter of Saturn, most ancient of the Gods.
~ Albert Pike
The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.
~ Aldous Huxley
Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.
~ Aldous Huxley
The insults bounced off their carapace of thick stupidity; they stared at him with a blank expression of dull and sullen resentment in their eyes. The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men
~ Aldous Huxley
He wanted to make the children understand that all gods are homemade, and that it's we who pull their strings and so give them the power to pull ours.
~ Aldous Huxley
Somos para los dioses como moscas en manos de chiquillos caprichosos; nos matan como en un juego.
~ Aldous Huxley
Los dioses son justos, sin duda, pero su código legal es dictado, en última instancia, por las personas que organizan la sociedad. La Providencia recibe órdenes de los hombres.
~ Aldous Huxley
In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them.
~ Aleister Crowley
The Abyss of Hallucinations has Law and Reason; but in Truth there is no bond between the Toys of the Gods.
~ Aleister Crowley
The truth of the profane was the falsehood of the Neophyte, and the truth of the Neophyte was the falsehood of the Zelator! Again and again the fortress must be battered down! Again and again the pylon must be overthrown! Again and again must the gods be desecrated!
~ Aleister Crowley
El Dios de los blancos ordena el crimen. Nuestros dioses nos piden venganza.
~ Alejo Carpentier
It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
The most that many people could hope for was that they should not incur the wrath of gods whom they had failed to appease or propitiate; beyond that, gods should be left to get on with their proper business and mortals with theirs.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Forgotten gods fill the layers of heaven. Quiescent, subordinate, long ago superseded. Waiting. And every so often, reminded of their own existence. ~~~
~ Doranna Durgin
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess. And you don't find out 'til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along." —Terry Pratchett
~ Douglas E. Richards
Lucretius said, 'fear begets gods,' and he was right.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk
~ Christopher Moore
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?
~ Euripides
If there is a witness to my little life,To my tiny throes and struggles,He sees a fool;And it is not fine for gods to menace fools.
~ Stephen Crane
One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.
~ Homer