#gods

We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#elves #gods #nature #nymphs #beauty

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers. ↗

— Virgil

#changed #decrees #gods #prayers #think

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest. ↗

— Herodotus

#greater #loves #punish #rest #than

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#gods #our #prayers #punish #us

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#biology #did #evolve #evolved #gods

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#devils #eventually #god #gods

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle! ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#defeat #gods #hands #let us #life

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt. ↗

— Natalie Wood

#every #gods #guilt #i #must

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods. ↗

— Whitley Strieber

#associated #completion #egyptian #ends #every

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#gods #lovers #spectacle #two #witness