#gods

Apollo?” I guessed… He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.” A god named Fred? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#gods #olympians #percy-jackson #names

A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#profundity #cosmic-ordering

The quickest way is sometimes the longest. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fantasy-fiction #fantasy-fiction

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. ↗

— Aeschylus

#desire #does #gifts #gods #only

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. ↗

— Aeschylus

#gods #man #mark #misfortune #rail

The gods help them that help themselves. ↗

— Aesop

#help #them #themselves

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain? ↗

— Aeschylus

#except #forever #gods #live #pain

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? ↗

— Aeschylus

#gods #his #length #lifetime #pain

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? ↗

— Aristophanes

#believe #gods #proof #shrines #surely

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ↗

— Aristotle

#appearance #apprehensive #believing #consider #devotion