Gods Quotes - page 4

Despise all those things which when liberated from the body you will not want; invoke the Gods to become your helpers. (Pythagoras)
There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras. View quote
Pythagoras
Govern your tongue before all other things, following the gods. View quote
Pythagoras
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper. From quotations which I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle. View quote
Charles Darwin
The universe is a womb for the genesis of gods. View quote
David Zindell
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates. View quote
Howard Zinn
All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods. View quote
William James
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge. View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
There is one god, greatest among gods and men, similar to mortals neither in shape nor in thought. View quote
Xenophanes
John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains and he withdrew his fire until the day when men withdraw their vultures. View quote
Ayn Rand
I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one. (Sylvia Plath)
Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what does the work of a fig-tree is a fig-tree, and that what does the work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work of a man is a man. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Where any work can be done conformably to the reason which is common to gods and men, there we have nothing to fear; for where we are able to get profit by means of the activity which is successful and proceeds according to our constitution, there no harm is to be suspected. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament. View quote
James Frazer
In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hermes: Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain. View quote
Cicero
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. View quote
Norman Borlaug
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. (Ezra Pound)
I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak. that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made. View quote
Ezra Pound
All Gods were immortal. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life. View quote
Protagoras
He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad. View quote
Diodorus Siculus