We've always had the confident vision
That other beings, angels or gods,Reign above us.
-Fernando Pessoa
God alone exists,
whether thought of as one God,
or as many Gods,
for all numbers are simply extensions of one.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
The gods are reflexes in space
of that sole reality, Brahman.
-Sadhu Santideva
of that sole reality, Brahman.
-Sadhu Santideva
All gods are one god;
and all the goddesses are one goddess,
and there is one initiator.
-Dion Fortune
and all the goddesses are one goddess,
and there is one initiator.
-Dion Fortune
Gods do not think as men think.
The thoughts of men are images;
the thoughts of Gods are living beings.
-Rudolph Steiner
All gods are homemade,
and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
-Aldous Huxley
The worshiper is the father of the gods.
-H. L. Mencken
We create gods and struggle with them,
and they bless us.
-Hermann Hesse
Is there anything as blithe
as believing in one's own household god!
-Franz Kafka
All gods are better than their reputation.
-Samuel Clemens, "Mark Twain"
There were a lot of gods.
Gods always come in handy,
they justify almost anything.
-Margaret Atwood
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
A god who can be fashioned,
a god who can be confined,
is but a shadow of man.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
The gods of the valley
are not the gods of the hills
and you shall understand it.
-Ethan Allen
Anyone unable to understand a god
sees it as a devil.
-Joseph Campbell
I am a polyatheist -
there are many gods I don't believe in.
-Dan Fouts
We only kill the gods
we do not believe in.
-Robert Sabatier
The death of one god
is the death of all.
-Wallace Stevens
One stone is worshiped as a God,
Another is trodden underfoot.
If one is a God, so is the other.
-Namdev
It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods
from the searching telescope and microscope;
there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.
-Joseph Campbell
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
When men make gods,
there is no God!
-Eugene O'Neill
And again: No more gods! no more gods!
Man is King, Man is God! -
But the great Faith is Love!
-Arthur Rimbaud
We must ask ourselves:
Who benefits
when the gods disappear from the world?
-James Hillman
It does me no injury for my neighbour to say
there are twenty gods, or no god.
-Thomas Jefferson
Happy is he who bears a god within.
-Louis Pasteur
If we meet no gods
it is because we harbour none.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If men cease to believe
that they will one day become gods
then they surely will become worms.
-Henry Miller
The belly is the reason
why man does not easily take himself for a god.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The thoughts of men are images;
the thoughts of Gods are living beings.
-Rudolph Steiner
Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died.
They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind,
awaiting our call.
-Stanley Kunitz
All ages before us have believed in gods in some form or other.
Only an unparalleled impoverishment of symbolism
could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors,
that is, as archetypes of the unconscious.
-Carl Jung
The "gods" are the highest ideals, or highest qualities
within the human soul.
-G. A. Gaskell
within the human soul.
-G. A. Gaskell
The gods of the ancients were only natural forces.
-Eliphas Levi
That fear first created the gods
is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be
on so great a subject.
-George Santayana
Every people have gods
to suit their circumstances.
-Henry David Thoreau
If triangles had a god,
he would have three sides.
-Charles de Montesquieu
If each thing has its corresponding god,
Why shouldn't I have a god as well?
Why shouldn't it be me?
It's in me that this god moves, for I feel.
I clearly see the outside world -
Things and men with no soul.
-Fernando Pessoa
In every corner of my soul,
there is an altar to a different god.
-Fernando Pessoa
When we choose a god,
we choose one
as much like ourselves as possible,
and even more so!
-Rebecca West
Gods always behave
like the people who made them.
-Zora Neale Hurston
They were most correct,
according to their god.
-Samuel Beckett
Whether or not they exist,
we're slaves to the gods.
-Fernando Pessoa
is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be
on so great a subject.
-George Santayana
Every people have gods
to suit their circumstances.
-Henry David Thoreau
If triangles had a god,
he would have three sides.
-Charles de Montesquieu
If each thing has its corresponding god,
Why shouldn't I have a god as well?
Why shouldn't it be me?
It's in me that this god moves, for I feel.
I clearly see the outside world -
Things and men with no soul.
-Fernando Pessoa
In every corner of my soul,
there is an altar to a different god.
-Fernando Pessoa
When we choose a god,
we choose one
as much like ourselves as possible,
and even more so!
-Rebecca West
Gods always behave
like the people who made them.
-Zora Neale Hurston
They were most correct,
according to their god.
-Samuel Beckett
Whether or not they exist,
we're slaves to the gods.
-Fernando Pessoa
The gods play no favorites.
-Charles Bukowski
All gods are homemade,
and it is we who pull their strings,
and so, give them the power to pull ours.
-Aldous Huxley
The worshiper is the father of the gods.
-H. L. Mencken
We create gods and struggle with them,
and they bless us.
-Hermann Hesse
Is there anything as blithe
as believing in one's own household god!
-Franz Kafka
All gods are better than their reputation.
-Samuel Clemens, "Mark Twain"
There were a lot of gods.
Gods always come in handy,
they justify almost anything.
-Margaret Atwood
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
A god who can be fashioned,
a god who can be confined,
is but a shadow of man.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
The gods of the valley
are not the gods of the hills
and you shall understand it.
-Ethan Allen
Anyone unable to understand a god
sees it as a devil.
-Joseph Campbell
I am a polyatheist -
there are many gods I don't believe in.
-Dan Fouts
We only kill the gods
we do not believe in.
-Robert Sabatier
The death of one god
is the death of all.
-Wallace Stevens
One stone is worshiped as a God,
Another is trodden underfoot.
If one is a God, so is the other.
-Namdev
It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods
from the searching telescope and microscope;
there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.
-Joseph Campbell
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
When men make gods,
there is no God!
-Eugene O'Neill
And again: No more gods! no more gods!
Man is King, Man is God! -
But the great Faith is Love!
-Arthur Rimbaud
We must ask ourselves:
Who benefits
when the gods disappear from the world?
-James Hillman
It does me no injury for my neighbour to say
there are twenty gods, or no god.
-Thomas Jefferson
Happy is he who bears a god within.
-Louis Pasteur
If we meet no gods
it is because we harbour none.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If men cease to believe
that they will one day become gods
then they surely will become worms.
-Henry Miller
The belly is the reason
why man does not easily take himself for a god.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make your god transparent to the transcendent,
and it doesn't matter what his name is.
-Joseph Campbell
Each god carries with it its own cosmos.
-Partrick Harpur
Thus men forgot that all deities
reside in the human breast.
-William Blake
All the gods are in our body.
-Heinrich Zimmer
The gods are merely projections
of personal desires and fears.
-Vernon Howard
Not to be a good man,
but to become a god -
this is the aim.
-Plotinus
Am I a god?
I see so clearly!
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Am I the god?
or does this fire carve me
for its use?
-Hilda Dolittle
Know ye not that ye are gods?
-The Bible
Every man is a divinity in disguise,
a god playing the fool.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
and it doesn't matter what his name is.
-Joseph Campbell
Each god carries with it its own cosmos.
-Partrick Harpur
Thus men forgot that all deities
reside in the human breast.
-William Blake
All the gods are in our body.
-Heinrich Zimmer
The gods are merely projections
of personal desires and fears.
-Vernon Howard
Not to be a good man,
but to become a god -
this is the aim.
-Plotinus
Am I a god?
I see so clearly!
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Am I the god?
or does this fire carve me
for its use?
-Hilda Dolittle
Know ye not that ye are gods?
-The Bible
Every man is a divinity in disguise,
a god playing the fool.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the shadow of the gods are the very gods themselves.
-James Hillman
Some say that the Gods are just a myth
but guess who I've been dancing with...
The great God Pan is alive!
-Mike Scott
Eat and carouse with Bacchus,
Or much dry bread with Jesus,
but don't sit down without one of the gods.
-D. H. Lawrence
When we know what God is,
we shall be gods ourselves.
-George Bernard Shaw
A knowledge of the gods is accompanied with...
the knowledge of ourselves.
-Iamblichus
Some say that the Gods are just a myth
but guess who I've been dancing with...
The great God Pan is alive!
-Mike Scott
Eat and carouse with Bacchus,
Or much dry bread with Jesus,
but don't sit down without one of the gods.
-D. H. Lawrence
When we know what God is,
we shall be gods ourselves.
-George Bernard Shaw
A knowledge of the gods is accompanied with...
the knowledge of ourselves.
-Iamblichus
