Gods Quotes

Most popular gods quotes

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

fear

The skirts of the gods
Drag in our mud.  We feel the touch
And take it to be a kiss. - Christopher Fry quote.
The skirts of the gods
Drag in our mud.  We feel the touch
And take it to be a kiss.
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.  If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money. - H. L. Mencken quote.
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.  If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.
Man is quite insane.  He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he created gods by the dozen. - Michel de Montaigne quote.
Man is quite insane.  He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he created gods by the dozen.
It is fear that first brought gods to the world. - Petronius quote.
It is fear that first brought gods to the world.
The gods play games with men as balls. - Plautus quote.
The gods play games with men as balls.
As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods.
They kill us for their sport. - William Shakespeare quote.
As flies to wanton boys are we to the Gods.
They kill us for their sport.
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. - Aldous Huxley quote.
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
All deities reside in the human breast. - William Blake quote.
All deities reside in the human breast.

God

All men have need of the gods. - Homer quote.
All men have need of the gods.
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Humour distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Agnes Repplier quote.
Humour distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

humor

It is fear that first brought gods into the world. - Petronius quote.
It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. - Robert A. Heinlein quote.
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.