#gods

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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Anyway, the title The War of the Insect Gods came before we had that ending, before we knew they had become gods. That we knew the evolutionary cycle they went through. Before we even knew anything about that. We had an ending. ↗

— Michael O'Donoghue

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When men make gods, there is no God! ↗

— Eugene O'Neill

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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. ↗

— Plotinus

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The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. ↗

— Sophocles

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After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied. ↗

— Ernest Shackleton

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Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods. ↗

— Socrates

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To live without evil belongs only to the gods. ↗

— Sophocles

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Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. ↗

— Richard Stallman

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