I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.
I need no master to punish me in order to behave as I ought. If I did, I would be no more than a child who obeys his father's rules only because he fears the whip, and not because he actually means go...
I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.
No it's not! said Constable Visit. Atheism is a denial of a god.Therefore It Is A Religious Position, said Dorfl. Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. There...
Of the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works.
Only the Gods are real.
Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.
Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught of interest. Wherever our Rat stopped, Pounce was there, close enough to see up...
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better...
She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.
Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.
The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced,...
The gods are blind and men see only wha they wish.
The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.
When a man cannot fight he would curse. The gods like to feel needed.
When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim.
You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something gives you an automatic right to obtain it by whatever means necess...
[The Edfu Building Texts in Egypt] take us back to a very remote period called the 'Early Primeval Age of the Gods'--and these gods, it transpires, were not originally Egyptian, but lived on a sacred...
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