Men create the gods in their own image.
Xenophanes
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ARISTOTLE
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GEORGE SANTAYANA Economists create their own worlds. We're like little gods with our artificial economics, wantin...
EDWARD C. PRESCOTT Humans create machine out of their image; God creates humans out of their image.
THANH LUU God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God ...
G. C. LICHTENBERG
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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.
CICERO PRO LIGARIO
In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people...
POPE FRANCIS
My atheism, like that of GEORGE SANTAYANA
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibi...
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON
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BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON The whole idea is to rejuvenate their lives and help them create a positive self-image.
MARC MAST
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
PEARL S. BUCK
In nothing do men so much resemble the gods as in giving help to
their fellow creatures.
UNKNOWN The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless
MAXWELL ANDERSON
We are the Gods, who create Gods, and then we turn into worshipers seeking comfort and solace from t...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to men.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Men are blind in their own cause.
NEYWOOD BROUN
Men are blind in their own cause.
HEYWOOD BROUN
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them th...
STEVEN SPIELBERG When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.
MARTY RUBIN create their own worlds with that information.
ISAAC MIZRAHI
Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
TOM STOPPARD
What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their tr...
HOMER People create their own happiness and also cause their own misery
DEE COLONESE People create their own happiness and also cause their own misery
DEE COLONESE The promoters basically could create their own private enclave.
CHARLES FAIRCHILD
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very dif...
W. H. AUDEN
All men have need of the gods.
HOMER A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad t...
DENNIS POTTER
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious...
DEMOCRITUS
The wisest men follow their own direction
EURIPIDES
The wisest men follow their own direction.
EURIPIDES
Good gods are scarce because the majority of gods are created by evil men
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious...
DEMOCRITUS
Who are neither children nor gods, but men in a world of men!
RUDYARD KIPLING
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own go...
HERMAN MELVILLE Most people create a destiny of minutiae, of the mundane. They create their own limitations. When th...
BILL BLAIS
Man made God in his own image...
ECKHART TOLLE If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the work...
XENOPHANES
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their...
LYSANDER SPOONER
It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of me...
CARL SAGAN
Only psychos and shamans create their own reality
TERENCE MCKENNA If the crisis continues, it could create an image of instability and uncertainty in Thailand.
PANITAN WATTANAYAGORN For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his o...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even w...
ZIA HAIDER RAHMAN
I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.
TOM ROBBINS
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.
JOHN OLIVER HOBBES
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
JOHN OLIVER HOBBES When men speak of the future, the Gods laugh.
CHINESE PROVERB Conscious men may doubt their own integrity, never their humility
DORIAN LIGHTING
'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH [In the shelters,] they almost create their own neighborhoods, their own communities, their own circ...
JOE LEONARD
The kinslayer is accursed in the eyes of gods and men,
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Let the Gods create the days, and just live through them.
ANDREW ASHLING
Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
WOODROW T. WILSON Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength....
JONATHAN SWIFT
All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
WOODROW WILSON Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
NINON DE LENCLOS Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by the...
LAWSON PURDY Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by ...
LAWSON PURDY
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
JEAN ANOUILH
Players are artists who create their own reality within the game.
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence
JEAN ANOUILH The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.
ELIZABETH OLSEN When men make gods, there is no God!
EUGENE O'NEILL
For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Were there no women, men might live like gods
THOMAS DEKKER Left to our own devices, we will make God in our own image.
JARED BROCK He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.
MAXWELL ANDERSON
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
THOMAS DEKKER
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
ALEXANDER POPE When men make gods, there is no God!
EUGENE O'NEILL When men make gods, there is no God
EUGENE O'NEILL The city was falling apart around them, but out of that they were able to create their own exhibitio...
LYNN GUMPERT
Where men can't live gods fare no better.
CORMAC MCCARTHY Beware of men who name their products with the initials of their own character.
MEL CROUCHER Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by othe...
EYVIND JOHNSON
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving
health to men.
[Lat., Homines ad d...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
XENOPHANES On their own merits modest men are dumb.
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER")
A Christian sees all men as made in the image of God. All are sinners too, which means that the imag...
ELISABETH ELLIOT
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to
men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos null...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) On their own merits modest men are dumb.
GEORGE COLMAN "THE YOUNGER"
Few men have been admired by their own domestics
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
All healthy men have thought of their own suicide
ALBERT CAMUS Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals,...
XENOPHANES Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals,...
XENOPHANES Brands are emotional; slogans are not. Slogans change; brands do not. Brands create an image in the ...
BILL GEIST
We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call t...
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY We wanted to create a new image and gateway for Greensboro on the southern side.
ALAN MOUNTJOY
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upo...
EDMUND BURKE Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by ...
LAURENCE HOPE
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Beca...
HENRY ROLLINS
The gods
Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,
And must be yours, that guilty men e...
BEN JONSON
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