199 Gods Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow. Jack Kerouac

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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. Lao Tzu

Myself Good Evil Spirits Concern Nor Gods Any Either Serve

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. Epicurus

Man Power Folly He Obtain Himself Pray Gods Which

Gods always behave like the people who make them. Zora Neale Hurston

People Like Make Always Behave Gods Them Who

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. Aleister Crowley

Me Book Never Message Gods Mankind Should Published

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. Mark Twain

Religion Millionaire Other Other Countries Worships India Only Countries Gods Them

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come. Mika Waltari

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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. Norman Mailer

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. Plotinus

Beasts Poised Between Gods Midway Mankind

Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back. David Horsey

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. Diogenes

Men Nothing Privilege Godlike Gods Want Little

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be. Diogenes

Ought Know Gods Whether

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it. Hesiod

You Long Way Easily Immortal Lies Excellence Steep Put Road Badness Quantity Smooth Close Get Gods Front Sweat

You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven. Laura Esquivel

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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. Henry Rollins

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. George Santayana

Men Own Universe Atheism Spinoza Only True Towards Like Piety Denies Gods Human Interests Servants Image

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love Humanity Believe Those Would Would-Be Had Perhaps Itself Gods Any Often Cannot Them Who Assert Sufficient Thinkers

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. John Boyd Orr

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly. Julius Caesar

Sometimes Prosperity Men Long Minded Crimes Complete Punish Immortal More Make Were Reverse Gods Wont Impunity Order Them Might Grant Fortune Suffer Whose

There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world, just like I did with the Greeks and 'Percy Jackson.' I'll give the books an urban setting and have young people interacting with the Norse gods. Rick Riordan

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