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Deities Quotes

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

David Hume (1793). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.595

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville (2001). “Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.

"Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations" by Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, (p. 297), 2004.

There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.263, JHU Press

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.134, Pearson Education

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.199, Penguin

A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity

Voltaire (1769). “Letters addressed to his Highness the Prince of *****, containing comments on the writings of the most eminent authors, who have been accused of attacking the Christian Religion”, p.51