the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

Love knows all paths, where even gods and cats are blind.

The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes...

Once I was King of the Titans. Now I need a MedicAlert bracelet and a subscription to the Safe Return program. Can you put out a Silver Alert on a god? I’ve fallen and I...

And if the earth Gods wreak vengeance on the sinless and the sinful alike, then this further destruction cannot be punishment for sins, but is in the way of all nature.

tells” you but I just don’t buy that. The beauty of it is that you are here today & you can be thankful & enjoy all the life that you have ahead of you. And...

Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.

The gods preferring their libations diluted with rainwater and mixed with freshly cut grass.

I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic.”That REALLY didn’t sound good.”What do you mean?” I asked. “what OTHER GODS?””I don’t know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside –– magicians...

The gods speak to us, and irony is their language.

fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be...

The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men.

Co-exist whether you believe in Pistachios or Pasta, Poseidon or the Prophet cause Gods and Religions cannot exist without us.

Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely atheist, but made fun of the gods and their prophets and oracles.

Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been true; but religion has murdered millions for doubting or denying her dogmas and...

Why don’t you turn off the ***! rain now?” From their perspective we are gods!

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

People who believe in buried gods,’ said Louis.‘Do you believe in buried gods, Detective Walsh?’‘I’m Episcopalian. I believe in everything.

Looking through the ruby glass one cannot see the true colour of the sky.

It was a survival thing: he didn’t answer back, didn’t say anything about job security for prison guards, debate the nature of repentance, rehabilitation, or rates of recidivism. He didn’t say anything funny or clever,...

He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety throne, afraid of opening letters, of making decisions, afraid of the...

She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.”Be careful seaweed brain.” She said putting on her invisible cap and...

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting ‘All gods are bastards!

The gods always hear our prayers but seldom choose to answer.

Now there are some, and I don’t just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political parties, who think that not many of these gods actually exist. Some believe that none of them...

Be confidently assured that any ‘gods’ that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them.

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

The gods love to toy with people who use absolutes.

the Dancing Bear wants us to suffer.

The problem of God is the problem of gods.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

You play games with people’s lives.(…) You forget that they are fragile.

I still don’t understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta.”Leo snorted. “What’s a wine god doing in Kansas? Gods are weird.

If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don’t believe on the basis of insufficient evidence–and punishes those who do.

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

I felt ashamed.””But of what? Psyche, they hadn’t stripped you naked or anything?””No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal — of being a mortal.””But how could you help that?””Don’t you think the things...

Gods fight, Ragnar went on earnestly, and some win, some lose. The Christian god is losing. Otherwise why would we be here? Why would we be winning? The gods reward us if we give them...

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness...

Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.

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

At my age, every day that I overcome simple inertia is a victory.

It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all – but we...

Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods.””Do you?””I believe they...

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

We experience the gods and the wisdom of the universe all in our own way

That’s how we all started. Once you start believing in them? It doesn’t get any easier.