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From too much love of livingFrom hope and fear set free,We thank with brief thanksgivingWhatever god...

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You've a right to believe that we're governed by Nature and the hidden Force within her. You can thi...

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We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a...

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Now there are some, and I don't just mean Communists like you, but thinking men of all political par...

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

Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravi...

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I remember sitting in this cabin in Alaska one evening reading over the notes of all these encounter...

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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosoph...

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But when you have order, you don't need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then n...

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When a man cannot fight he would curse. The gods like to feel needed.

I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remem...

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Gods fight, Ragnar went on earnestly, and some win, some lose. The Christian god is losing. Otherwis...

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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fi...

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Bertrand RussellWhy I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

There is something beyond. Though perhaps my belief is merely my own desire wishing it to be so.""Yo...

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So the gods,” Moash said, nursing his own drink, “were pleased that you solved problems on your own ...

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He knew that he wielded magic as well as iron, and yet looked away from it, and made himself fables ...

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C. J. CherryhFortress of Eagles

We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to...

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As someone has said "gods" is not really the plural of God; God has no plural.

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C. S. LewisReflections on the Psalms

I felt ashamed.""But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?""No, no, Maia. Ash...

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C. S. LewisTill We Have Faces

the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is.

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C. S. LewisTill We Have Faces

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. Bu...

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C. S. LewisTill We Have Faces

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men...

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If one believes in a god, one is a Theist. If one does not believe in a god, then one is an A-theist...

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Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They th...

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the gods seldomgivebut so quicklytake.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

the gods play nofavorites.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolb...

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By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a chi...

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All the demons of Hell formerly reigned as gods in previous cultures. No it's not fair, but one man'...

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Nobody wants to worship you if you have the same problems, the same bad breath and messy hair and ha...

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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more

Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and th...

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The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their god...

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Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don’t think they can become men

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the ...

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in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite.

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Dorothy L. SayersBusman's Honeymoon

But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of i...

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Douglas AdamsThe Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

The insurance companies involved had all claimed that this was, by any reasonable standards, an act ...

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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are foreve...

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Perhaps he still hopes. If there’s any justice in the Gods’ injustice, then may they let us keep our...

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What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent o...

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It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss...

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The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish.

The gods are blind and men see only what they wish.

Not that I'm complaining. It was better than my old dream, where Harma Dogshead was feeding me to he...

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The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.

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George R. R. MartinA Dance with Dragons

What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?

Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

They are coming to teach us good manners!" I replied in English. "But they won't succeed, because we...

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Sometimes I feel like I'm writing pornography in the notebook of the gods.

Atal felt a spectral change in the air, as if the laws of earth were bowing to greater laws.

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpa...

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In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta...

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If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods...

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Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?

It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the ...

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Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.

What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their tr...

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There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not ...

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Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the do...

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Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods.

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

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet...

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John AdamsThe Political Writings of John Adams

Of the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works.

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John BanvilleThe Infinities

People who believe in buried gods,’ said Louis.‘Do you believe in buried gods, Detective Walsh?’‘I’m...

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Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened...

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The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing abou...

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As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

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In the early twelfth century century the Virgin had been the supreme protectress of civilisation. Sh...

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If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.

Joe has sense enough to knowHe is a god.So many gods don't know.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will r...

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Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not...

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I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

Don’t interfere with false gods, you’ll get the gold paint all over your hands.

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Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin

Who is to say that prayers have any effect? On the other hand, who is to say they don't? I picture t...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Penelopiad

And if the earth Gods wreak vengeance on the sinless and the sinful alike, then this further destruc...

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India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...

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Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yo...

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I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves o...

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I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am;Maelström of passions in that hidden seaWhose waves o...

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When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by ...

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Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilati...

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Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and m...

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N. K. JemisinThe Broken Kingdoms

We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest kille...

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N. K. JemisinThe Broken Kingdoms

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think...

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It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than b...

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N. K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

So there was love, once. More than love. And now there is more than hate. Mortals have no words for ...

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N. K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

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N. K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. De...

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N. K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms