Quotes about Gods
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
- Cicero
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
- William Faulkner
Gods should not resemble men in their anger!
- Euripides
Itaque inter omnis omnium gentium summa constat; omnibus enim innatum est et in animo quasi insculptum esse deos.
- Cicero
Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but the speaker's.
- Virginia Woolf
Would that we might spare the reader what is to come and say to him in so many words, Orlando died and was buried. But here, alas, Truth, Candour, and Honesty, the austere Gods, who keep watch and ward by the inkpot of the biographer, cry No!
- Virginia Woolf
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
- William Faulkner
All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
- William James
The Jews were the first monotheistic culture in history. They believed in one God and one God only. The Greco-Roman world of Herod's day was polytheistic. They believed in many gods, and much of their worship was sexual in nature.
- Kathie Lee Gifford
A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
- Livy
Whom the gods love, die young, no matter how long they live.
- Elbert Hubbard
They do us honor by seeing gods in us, and we respond by treating them like things.
- JM Coetzee