Memorable Quotes About The Dilution Of Godhood

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"When men become gods, they become terrible."
H.P. Lovecraft
"The gods are not dead, they are merely being diluted by the triviality of man."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"To become a god is to lose the very essence of what makes one human."
C.S. Lewis
"The more we attempt to define the divine, the more we diminish it."
Thomas Aquinas
"Man has become so much of a god that he has lost the ability to be a man."
Blaise Pascal
"When the sacred is treated as common, the divine is diluted."
Mircea Eliade
"We have traded the majesty of the heavens for the glitter of our own inventions."
Aldous Huxley
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"The danger is not that the gods are failing, but that we are making them too small."
Carl Jung
"Modernity is the process of turning the miraculous into the mundane."
Walter Benjamin
"As science explains the mystery, the godhead recedes into the shadows of the known."
Albert Einstein
"We have deified our own intellect and, in doing so, lost the soul of the divine."
Søren Kierkegaard
"When everything is sacred, nothing is sacred."
Unknown (Attributed to various theologians)
"The myth is being bled dry by the logic of the marketplace."
Joseph Campbell
"We are attempting to build a heaven on earth, but we are only building a gilded cage for our divinity."
Oscar Wilde
"The divine is found in the infinite, not in the increments of our ego."
Rumi
"To measure the divine is to ensure its evaporation."
Blaise Pascal
"Man's ambition to reach the stars has only resulted in the lowering of the heavens."
Arthur C. Clarke
"The gods of old were terrifying; the gods of today are merely celebrities."
Neil Gaiman
"By making ourselves the center of the universe, we have crowded out the gods."
Bertrand Russell
"The dilution of the spirit begins when the material replaces the eternal."
Simone Weil
"We have taken the lightning of the gods and turned it into a household bulb."
Ray Bradbury
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"The sacredness of the world is being eroded by the noise of our own voices."
Eckhart Tolle
"When we seek to control the divine, we only succeed in making it a tool."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A god that can be understood is no longer a god."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The tragedy of progress is the thinning of the mystery."
T.S. Eliot

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