#gods

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ↗

— Theodor Reik

#could #different #gods #himself #imagine

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#distorts #earthly #false #gods #laughed

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#effort #gods #great #impress #journeys

Wow," Thalia muttered. "Apollo is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#gods #hot #olympians #percy-jackson #sun

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#find #gods #men #new #old

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

— Terry Pratchett

#ancient times #cats #forgotten #gods #times

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be. ↗

— Diogenes

#i #i do #know #ought #whether

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#god #gods #injury #me #neighbor

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#avarice #every #fair #foul #gods

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

#back #backwards #beginning #beings #bored