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" Quotes and Sayings About the gods

The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives by suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, nothing tells us how things really are, nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

Truth Speak. Force Declare
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The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

Shape Strain Song Triumph
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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 fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Prove Exist Ancient Region
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Impress People Effort Time
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Calling God Good Hand
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It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Gods Little Men Want
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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.

About Am Artist Atheist
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Gods Only Poets Interpreters
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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

A Good Man After Death Either
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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.

Advances Back Backwards Beginning
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
Dead Except God Gods
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Arouse Being Ecstasy Envy
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No matter how angry the gods are, a lion cannot be used for sacrifice..no one can take your life no matter their precedent in the act of extinction.

Act Lion Life Angry
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Banish business, banish sorrow. To the gods belongs tomorrow.

Belongs Banish Sorrow Business
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
Man Moral Conscience Curse
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From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

Example Learn Despise Gods
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A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.

Always Error Even Faith
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Boy Flies Gods Sport
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With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain

Stupidity Gods Struggle In-vain
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Anything Art Cunning Face
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There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

Believe Destiny Gods Truth
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Perfection shall remain the boring privilege of the gods, while our bungling, messy world every night shall be lived as if it were the last and every day as if it were the first.

Perfection Remain Privilege Gods
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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Achieve Argue Awakens Certain
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In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

Become Creative Decorating Eventually
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It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.
Courage Endure Enemies Face
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We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

About Atheists Believed Ever
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If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Beginning Believe Did End
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If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Any Apart Fame Gods
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But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Like Great success Jealous The gods
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You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.

Neither numbers Strength Victory Assistance
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Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man

Madness Ends sometimes God Decree it
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I wondered why the gods no longer came to earth. It would make belief so much easier.

Wonder The gods To earth Make belief
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The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

The pursuit Eternity Prerogative The gods
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the Gods made for fun.

Man suffers Take seriously Gods made Fun
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I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity.

I Real Gods Men
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Men ask for health in their prayers to the gods: they do not realize that the power to achieve it lies in themselves. Lacking self-control, they perform contrary actions and betray health to their desires.

Men Health Prayers Desires
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Man Pray Power Obtain
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If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

Prayers Men Humankind Evils
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Don't fear the gods, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.

Fears Worry Death Endure
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The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are meted out to the evil and the greatest of blessings to the good.

Opinions People Gods Evil
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