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“But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?”
Clare Boothe Luce
“There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
Abraham Lincoln
“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.”
Abraham Lincoln
“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.”
Abraham Lincoln
“God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.”
Stephen Hawking
“Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”
Stephen Hawking
“Leave the rest to the gods.”
Horace
“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.”
Plato
“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”
Plato
“We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.”
Plato
“The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.”
Plato
“The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.”
Plato
“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.”
Plato
“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”
Aristotle
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
Aristotle
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
Aristotle
“The gods too are fond of a joke.”
Aristotle
“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.”
Aristotle
“Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.”
Euripides
“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.”
Euripides
“God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.”
Euripides
“He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.”
Euripides
“God's only excuse is that he does not exist.”
Stendhal
“Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.”
Honore de Balzac
“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”
Aldous Huxley
“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”
Aldous Huxley
“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”
Aldous Huxley
