800 Quotes About Gods

Faced with the sky we imagine gods, faced with the ocean we imagine islands. Absence is terrifying, and so we fill the gaps in our knowledge with invented things. These bring us comfort, but they conflict, too, with our desire for certainty and understanding. And sometimes that desire gives us back the absences we sought to fill.

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely atheist, but made fun of the gods and their prophets and oracles.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Gods dream of empires, but devils build them.

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.

but some of us are born / in orbit / so learn /to commune with miles of darkness / patterns of dead gods / & quiet / o quiet like you / wouldn't believe

By a show of hands," Kirsch continued, "how many of you believe in any of the following ancient gods: Apollo? Zeus? Vulcan?" He paused, and then laughed. "Not a single one of you? Okay, so it appears we are all atheists with respect to those gods." He paused. "I simply choose to go one god further.