231 quotes found
“The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great objectMan and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry ...”
“I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.”
“Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods dont think they can become men”
“There are no gods, only men.”
“So there was love, once. More than love. And now there is more than hate. Mortals have no words for what we gods feel. Gods have no words for such things. But love like that doesn't just disappear,...”
“The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.”
“Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?”
“I happen to be partial to humans - most, anyway. Clowns, not so much. Those evil bastards never stop smiling.”
“It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by those who suffer deeply. Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate...”
“If there must be a god in the house, must be,Saying things in the rooms and on the stair,Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghostOr Aristotle's skele...”
“My soul is not satisfied with an inert universe. The gods may not make a habit of speaking to me personally, but I can't help but whisper comments to them.”
“We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consen...”
“The world is sacred, of course, it is full of gods, numina, great powers and presences. We give some of them names Mars of the fields and the war; Vesta the fire; Ceres the grain; Mother Tellus th...”
“We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.”
“We can name this river, here and nowbut we cannot name the water itself. We can name our gods and we can name ourselves, but we cannot name the essence of sacred identity that flows through both, t...”
“Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in pe...”
“It was his vocation to pleasure as many women as possible, in pursuit of his own pleasure. It was as close to a job as he got.”
“If you think it is spiritual to burn food in front of starving people in hopes that your gods will bring this back to you in triplicate, you are missing the point and sowing animosity from all sides.”
“Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.”
“...a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.”
