Gods

May 1, 2006 | Share/Save

"I believe there are many gods not one and always in conflict. Well, if there are a gods who created and control what's going on here, you can tell a lot about them by what is going on. I assume they are colonists. And so anything you can see here you can infer is the act or the will of one of those gods. All you have to do is look around. You'll see what they're like. It's like looking in someone's yard." - WS Burroughs

"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money." - H.L. Mencken

"The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so cannot…. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can but will not, then they are not benevolent. If they are neither willing nor able, they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent." - Epicurus, Aphorisms

"If the gods do evil then they are not gods." - Euripides

"A man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods." - Andre Gide, Thesee, pub. 1946

"All things are full of gods." - Thales de Miletus, 640-546 B.C., attributed by Aristotle

"You have to believe in gods to see them." - Hopi Indian saying

"When belief in a god dies, the god dies." - Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories

"When men make gods, there is no God!" - Eugene O'Neill