1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
15659 | Purifying yourself with blood is as crazy as using mud to wash off mud [Heraclitus] |
1522 | It is wretched not to want to think clearly about the gods [Empedocles] |
12097 | There are as many eternal unmovable substances as there are movements of the stars [Aristotle] |
22729 | The concepts of gods arose from observing the soul, and the cosmos [Aristotle, by Sext.Empiricus] |
9287 | Bruno said that ancient Egyptian magic was the true religion [Bruno, by Yates] |
14827 | The Greeks saw the gods not as their masters, but as idealised versions of themselves [Nietzsche] |
7208 | Paganism is a form of thanking and affirming life? [Nietzsche] |
14864 | The Greeks lack a normative theology: each person has their own poetic view of things [Nietzsche] |
7348 | The Jews sharply distinguish human and divine, but the Greeks pull them closer together [Johnson,P] |
20666 | Most polytheist recognise one supreme power or law, behind the various gods [Harari] |
20667 | Polytheism is open-minded, and rarely persecutes opponents [Harari] |
20665 | Mythologies are usual contracts with the gods, exchanging devotion for control of nature [Harari] |