Top 1200 False Gods Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods.

We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.

Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods.

We are betrayed by what is false within

To the devil with false modesty.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle game.

The chief difficulty is that God demands of us that we live by faith: faith in God, God's sovereignty over the future, God's sufficiency for the present; while, on the other hand, the various other gods whom we can serve appeal to us in terms of the things which we can see and the forces which we can calculate. The choice between the life of faith and the life of sight is a choice between a God whom only faith can apprehend and gods whom one has only to see to understand.

If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness; Or, if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth; Muffle your false love with some show of blindness; Let not my sister read it in your eye; Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator; Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty; Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger; Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted; Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint; Be secret-false.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.

The cause of misery, death, and all personal and collective problems is rooted in the mind, the false, copy mind. The real, divine mind is transcendental, the witness, without thinking. Divine mind is without thoughts, all knowing, and eternally blissful. Trying to solve problems by thinking about them never produces a permanent solution because this false mind creates all problems; whereas, divine mind and our inner guidance bring forth solutions for our greatest good and the greatest good for all.

Academic theology is false.

'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'

We are not servants of some God; we are 'our own gods?'

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

I think the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first subsidize.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.

For a "monotheistic" religion it should be sufficient with three gods.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

Display is as false as it is costly.

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

Gods always love the people who make em.

The saying goes that the gods leave a town once it is captured.

Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

The gods my protectors. [Lat., Di me tuentur.]

I don't do interviews under false pretenses.

The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

In the beginning of their end, people created their gods and their after-lives.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.

There is no such thing as a false idea.

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Gods and men honor those who have fought in battle.

Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.

I hate false nines.

Even the gods pardon someone who makes a mistake.

Men always makes gods in their own image.

The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad.

I don't like false modesty.