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“The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented.”
“For the natural polytheist, whose gods arise in and from the natural material world ... Our gods not only have transcendent eyes and metaphysical hands. They have antlers and feathers, hooves and s...”
“I sing to you of many more gods, gods of wind and water, gods of each mineral and the events that created them. I sing to you of the gods of protons, of quarks, of atomic forces binding and holding...”
“I sing to you of the deities of the Dictyostelidal slime molds, sexless and strange, at once a thousand voices and one song united. I sing to you of hard times when the wood has rotted away and the...”
“I don't know much about gods, but I think the river is a strong, brown god”
“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
“I'm telling you, you really should stick to mating within your species, whatever that is.''I would,' I said, 'but unfortunately, there are no gorgeous, all-powerful, all-knowing gods around here. I...”
“I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelstrm of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me;And in small compass the dark waters cram.”
“While it was well within their powers to toy around with mortals like hapless puppets, deeper human workings remained elusive to them. The heart, the soul, the very foundation of mans naturethose w...”
“Theres no such thing as `one, true way; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good th...”
“If you survive in battle, it is with Odin's grace, and if you fall, it is because he has betrayed you.”
“Aeneas' mother is a star?""No; a goddess."I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when things begin growing. And we call the evening star Venus."He thought i...”
“Well?" said Loki. "What about you, Heimdall? Do you have any suggestions?""I do," said Heimdall. "But you won't like it."Thor banged his fist down upon the table. "It does not matter whether or not...”
“To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth.”
“Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods”
“To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship.”
“Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.”
“Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods?I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods.”
“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!”
“On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.”
