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.

Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught of interest. Wherever our Rat stopped, Pounce was there, close...

Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there...

Gods are what people worship. Men are what die.

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to...

Irony of life – GOD will always make you do things which you never want to.

Gods must be crazyFlowers must be daisyClouds must be hazyWinds must be lazyWhat else it could be…My heart must be in love lately…

All you Westerosi make a shame of loving. There is no shame in loving. If your septons say there is, your seven gods must be demons. In the isles we know better. Our gods gave...

A god should not favor any race, any being or any human.A god should not encourage hate, murder, worship or zealotry.A god who does so has no right to be called a god at all.

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.

Organizing gods is like herding cats into straight lines. They don’t take naturally to it.

You are like a god, like an immortal one,’ she whispered to me one night in our bed, her naked body pressed to mine, our sweat golden and glistening in the candlelight. ‘Oh, my love,’...

Those five nuts right there.”Which one is me?” I asked.The little deformed one,” Zoe suggested.Oh, shut up.

. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other’s throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of...

On the Disc, the Gods aren’t so much worshipped, as they are blamed.

To be angry at the gods is to scream at the stars. Even if they hear, they will not stop shining.

the gods play nofavorites.

If I convert it’s because it’s better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own wickedness that brings them sufferings worse than any which...

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had grounds for thinking that the powers held traditionally to be...

The Gods know what it is to be eternal, and they love to toy with mortals who use absolutes.

Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods…But even the great can tremble with fear.Even the great can fall

Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn’t contribute to either, the good or evil.

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.