I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo Galilei
Quotations
God
The gods and demons were rivals of each other. The demons, swollen with pride, said, “In what, pray, should we place the oblation?” And they proceeded to place it in their own mouths.
-Scriptures "Satapata Brahmana"
Love is the firstborn, loftier than the gods, fathers and men. You, O Love, are the eldest of all, altogether mighty. To you we pay homage!...
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
To you, I’m an atheist. To God, I’m the loyal opposition.
-Woody Allen "Woody Allen"
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
-Rabindranath Tagore
God hides things by putting them all around us.
-Anonymous
Chant the name of God with heartfelt devotion. Everything else is just a pompous worldly show.
-Sri Guru Granth Sahib "Guru Granth Sahib"
God is that infinite all of which man knows himself to be a finite part.
-Leo Tolstoy
If it be true that spirit is involved in Matter…then manifestation in the divine in himself and the realisation of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aims possible to man on earth.
-Sri Aurobindo "Sri Aurobindo"
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
