#gods

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#different #different faiths #disparate #dreams #faiths

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#any #basically #because #characters #gods

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. ↗

— Hippocrates

#gods #good #hand #himself #indeed

Where no gods are, spectres rule. ↗

— Novalis

#rule #where

Leave the rest to the gods. ↗

— Horace

#leave #rest

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

— Elbert Hubbard

#arouse #being #ecstasy #envy #forgiven

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#chickens #depending #eat #else #fox

Gods always behave like the people who make them. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#behave #gods #like #make #people

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#beginning #communism #convent #converted #during

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#cost #crammed #easily #fairly #few