A Quote by L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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Beings Create Creators Deities Desire Fallible Finite Followers Hope Immortal Imperfections Inspire Invented Only Perfection Reflect Similar Unfortunately

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L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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Born: October 19, 1943

The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they would be unable to avoid paying, because the Athenians had the support of two powerful deities, one called Persuasion and the other Compulsion.The Andrians had replied that Athens was lucky to have two such useful gods, who were obviously responsible for her wealth and greatness; unfortunately, they themselves, in their small & inadequate land, had two utterly useless deities, who refused to leave the island and insisted on staying; and their names were Poverty and Inability.

Herodotus

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Hinduism, being one of the world's oldest, largest and most diverse traditions, also provides inspiration toward deities in our game. In fact, given Hinduism's concept of a single truth with multiple physical manifestations one could validly interpret ALL the gods within SMITE to be Hindu. And all gods outside of SMITE as well. Ponder that for a minute. Anyway, going forward SMITE will include even more deities, not fewer.

Todd Harris

for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

Rabindranath Tagore

There are only three kinds of people. LEADERS. Those who take charge, build, inspire, and create. FOLLOWERS. Those who support leaders and work to achieve mutually beneficial goals.... [and] DESTROYERS. Destroyers cannot find it within themselves to follow anyone, their hatred and insecurity is too pure to see strength in any OTHER being. The utterly lack the ability to inspire or create, so they do the only thing left to them -- they tear down all they come in contact with.

Rick Remender

We are in the greatest evolutionary transformation in the history of our species. We are expanding beyond the five senses. We are becoming aware of ourselves as immortal souls, as powerful creators and co-creators. We are becoming aware that we experience what we create, and there is no escape from that.

Gary Zukav

We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.

Scott Cunningham

Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities.

John Suckling

A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.

Edwin Percy Whipple

thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

William Blake

A triptych in which the presiding deities are Mother, England and Me.

Peter Ackroyd

I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.

Euripides

People who need to believe in deities can find them everywhere they look.

Graham Kendall

Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality will be extinct; and in its place will reign the duality of lust and luxury as the male and female deities, with money as its priest, fraud, force, and competition its ceremonies, and the human soul its sacrifice. Such a thing can never be.

Swami Vivekananda

The world is fine and everything is normal and then, bang, you just get bowled over by the wrathful deities somehow. That happens in very small ways and happens in very large ways when you have a major conflagration in the world. It's another cycle of existence of human beings.