J. Robert Oppenheimer, witnessing the first test of a nuclear weapon, confessed to tasting sin. But he and all his colleagues knew from the beginning what lay waiting at the end of the project. And which was the stronger flavor, the sin, or the satisfaction of having stolen fire from the gods? —Theodore Roszak More about this quote Tags: nuclear weapons gods sin Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: gods punishment reward prayers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you lack the iron and the fuzz to take control of your own life, if you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: life power humor gods control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More about this quote Tags: love gods lovers spectacle Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We make people into Gods, desperate that they never leave us and hopeful that someday, if we ever deserve it, maybe they'll love us back even half way. —Jennifer Elisabeth in Born Ready More about this quote Tags: love hope people gods Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All the gods are dead except the god of war. —Eldridge Cleaver More about this quote Tags: war gods Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just — his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: justice wisdom learning intelligence safety gods childhood growth lying parental infallibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. —Plato More about this quote Tags: wonder love gods good joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising. —Cyril Connolly More about this quote Tags: potential gods Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. —Iris Murdoch More about this quote Tags: soul gods art cunning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email