#gods

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#biology #did #evolve #evolved #gods

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#devils #eventually #god #gods

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle! ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#defeat #gods #hands #let us #life

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#every #gods #guilt #i #must

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods. ↗

— Whitley Strieber

#associated #completion #egyptian #ends #every

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#gods #lovers #spectacle #two #witness

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work. ↗

— Phyllis Gotlieb

#certainly #comes #go #gods #hell

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#am #artist #atheist #distrust #everything

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach. ↗

— Edmond Halley

#gods #may #mortal #nearer

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. ↗

— Herodotus

#gods #great #great success #how #i