Gods Quotes

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

Truth, Knowledge, Judge

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein

Thoughts, Rest, Details

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Neighbor, Injury

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

Religion, Him, Put

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde

Wish, Answer, Prayers

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare

Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde

Love, Young, Grow

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

Might, Above, Dwells

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius

Truth, Art, Anger

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato

Love, Good, Wise

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell

Computers, Old, Rules

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

May, Silent, Hear

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao Tzu

Good, Evil, Either

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Aristotle

Life, Men, After

The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Human, Reason

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus

Rock, Thought, Reason

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
Henry David Thoreau

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
Bill Cosby

Marriage, Heart, Happen

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
Socrates

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard

Envy, Joy, Might

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Richard Dawkins

God, Societies, Atheists

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
Plato

Good, Truth, Beginning

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
Plato

Service, Tolerable

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard

Evil, Human, Bored

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

Design, Simple, Down

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Two, Lovers, Witness

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. Mencken

God, Wise, Impossible

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Success, Him, Question

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
Terry Pratchett

Times, Cats, Forgotten

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