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Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.