Quotes About Gods

Ne zaman Ploutos eskisi gibi görür oldu ondan beri kimse biz tanr?lara ne buhur, ne defne, ne arpa ekmeÄŸi, ne kurban, ne baÅŸka bir ÅŸey takdim eder oldu.

The gods too are fond of a joke.

The Deus ex Machina should be employed only for events external to the drama, — for antecedent or subsequent events, which lie beyond the range of human knowledge, and which require to be reported or foretold; for to the gods we ascribe the power of seeing all things.

Death is evil. So the gods decided. Otherwise they would die.

Faith in one's own destiny was among the most valuable of the gifts which the gods could bestow upon a man

Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.

You will find men like him in all the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets.

One by one she would cut through the orbits of Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion... worlds bearing the names of gods and goddesses who had vanished only yesterday, as time was counted here.

You will find men like him in all the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods.

And it may be that no such bridge is possible, and that two such alien forms of consciousness can never coexist. If this is so, then only one of them can inherit the Solar System. Which it will be, not even the Gods know—yet.

Humanity had lost its ancient gods: now it was old enough to have no need for new ones.

Now when the child grows up and finds that he is destined to remain a child for ever, and that he can never do without protection against unknown and mighty powers, he invests these with the traits of the father-figure; he creates for himself the gods, of whom he is afraid, whom he seeks to propitiate, and to whom he nevertheless entrusts the task of protecting him.

erkeÄŸin tanr?lar? göÄŸün öylesine ?rak bir köÅŸesindedirler ki, gerçekte, tanr? falan yoktur onun için: küçük k?zsa, insan yüzlü tanr?lar aras?nda yaÅŸar.

Love is the teacher of gods and men, for no one learns without desiring to learn. Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

CREONTE Come posso sbagliare se obbedisco al mio stesso comando?» «EMONE Perché calpesti ciò che spetta agli dèi.»

Grant me from the blessed gods prosperity, and] from all mankind the possession ever of good repute; [and that I may thus be a delight to my friends, and an affliction to my foes, but the first revered], by the other beheld with dread.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.

Never honor the gods in one breath and take the gods for fools the next.

They are dying, the old oracles sent to Laius, now our masters strike them off the rolls. Nowhere Apollo's golden glory now -- the gods, the gods go down.

One soul is enough, I know, to pay the debt for thousands, if one will go to the gods in all good faith.

Both noun (eusebia) and verb (sebizo) derive from the Greek root seb-, which refers to the awe that radiates from gods to humans and is given back as worship. Everything related to this root has fear in it.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Oedipus: (looking up at the sun) 'LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT never again flood these eyes with your white radiance, oh gods my eyes.

Not I. Only the gods can give you that.