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Deities Quotes - Page 3

In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.

"New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

Nature is saturated with Deity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.35, Harvard University Press

Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod

John Dryden, Ovid, Giovanni Boccaccio, Homer, Geoffrey Chaucer (1771). “Dedication to His Grace the Duke of Ormond. The preface. Poem to Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormond. Palamon and Arcite: or, The Knight's tale, from Chaucer (bk. I-III) To my honoured kinsman John Dryden of Chesterton. Meleager and Atalanta, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace. Baucis and Philemon, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Pygmalion and the statute, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Cinyras and Myrrha, out of th”

Fashion is a capricious deity.

Mary Russell Mitford (1859). “Recollections of a literary life ... Second edition”, p.297

Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it.

Mahatma Gandhi (1960). “Writings and Speeches of Mahatma Gandhi Relating to Bihar, 1917-1947”

For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity.

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”