#gods

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

We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods. ↗

— Brian Herbert

#religion #universe #religion

Therefore God is one, if that which admits of so great power can be nothing else: and yet those who deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided their functions among themselves; but we will discuss all these matters at their proper places. ↗

— Lactantius

#deem #discuss #divided #else #functions

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#before #being #even #gods #made

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests. ↗

— George Santayana

#denies #fashioned #gods #human #image

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. ↗

— George Santayana

#brief #could #created #fear #first