#gods

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work. ↗

— Phyllis Gotlieb

#certainly #comes #go #gods #hell

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. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#am #artist #atheist #distrust #everything

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach. ↗

— Edmond Halley

#gods #may #mortal #nearer

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. ↗

— Herodotus

#gods #great #great success #how #i

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it. ↗

— Hesiod

#close #easily #excellence #front #get

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#centuries #danger #deaths #drama #expanding

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#different #different faiths #disparate #dreams #faiths

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#any #basically #because #characters #gods

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. ↗

— Hippocrates

#gods #good #hand #himself #indeed

Where no gods are, spectres rule. ↗

— Novalis

#rule #where