Quotes About Gods

Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men.

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy

This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

God does not deal directly with man: it is by means of spirits that all the intercourse and communication of gods with men, both in waking life and in sleep, is carried on.

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

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

but gets to be in the Pantheon anyway and sit on Olympus with the Gods, as if you went to the Supreme Court and found Bozo the Clown planted among the justices.

He strove to integrate us," said Eve, "but he, or we, failed. We are ineluctably children of the Beta Gods.

Fenris was a giant wolf of Norse mythology who, it was prophesied, would return one day to fuck everything up, and such were the ground rules of that mythos that there was nothing the gods could do about it).

Then, again gradually, Gods were given larger roles. The need for protection, for strength, began to supplant the need for wisdom and love. A new kind of love was born in these mythologies. A love which protects with brute force. But it was a love which also covets what it protects; which was jealous of its Goddesses; which now did not simply serve their feminine lusts, but fought and died for them.

That's when I started to leave it behind. I realized that I got my entire validation from women. Women became like gods to me, but false gods.

The Germans who remained Pagan – the Franks, Angles, Saxons and Jutes – worshipped Wotan (or Wodin) as their chief god, together with other deities such as Thor (god of thunder), Tiwaz (god of war), Freya (goddess of fertility), and Saeter (a water-god). We derive the names of most our days from these Germanic gods: Tuesday (Tiwaz's day), Wednesday (Wodin's day), Thursday (Thor's day), Friday (Freya's day), Saturday (Saeter's day).

I do love mythology.

I am inspired by Indian mythology.

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

Selon la tradition, c'est lui qui aurait inventé le mot « philosophie » en disant que seuls les dieux ont droit au beau nom de sage (sophos en grec), l'homme, quant à lui, ne peut qu'aimer la sagesse (philo, en grec, signifie « aimer » et sophia, « sagesse »), tendre vers elle, s'efforcer de l'atteindre.

Pythagore - Selon la tradition, c'est lui qui aurait inventé le mot « philosophie » en disant que seuls les dieux ont droit au beau nom de sage (sophos en grec), l'homme, quant à lui, ne peut qu'aimer la sagesse (philo, en grec, signifie « aimer » et sophia, « sagesse »), tendre vers elle, s'efforcer de l'atteindre.

God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves. Xenophanes