Gods Quotes

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

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

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Where no gods are, spectres rule.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

Even if you don't believe in God, exploring fully the idea of a god or gods should pose no threat to you.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.

I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.