It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

What gods do you believe in?

I’ll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.

When you speak of the favour of the gods, we may as fairly hope for that as yourselves; neither our pretensions nor our conduct being in any way contrary to what men believe of the gods, or practise among themselves. Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. And it is not as if we were the first to make this law, or to act upon it when made: we found it existing before us, and shall leave it to exist for ever after us; all we do is to make use of it, knowing that you and everybody else, having the same power as we have, would do the same as we do. Thus, as far as the gods are concerned, we have no fear and no reason to fear that we shall be at a disadvantage. But when we come to your notion about the

The existance of many gods conveys true complexity of mortal life. Conversely, the assertion of but one god leads to a denial of complexity, and encourages the need to maek the world simple. Not the fault of the god, but a crime commited by its believers.

If it pleases the gods, so be it.

Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

Introite, nam et heic Dii sunt! (Enter, for here too are gods.)

How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.

Talking to the gods had been a much more comfortable proposition when there had seemed no danger of Their talking back.

Why did it occur to anyone to believe in only one God? And conversely why did it ever occur to anyone to believe in many gods? To both these questions we must return the same answer: Because that is how the human mind happens to work. For the human mind is both diverse and simple, simultaneously many and one. We have an immediate perception of our own diversity and of that of the outside world. And at the same time we have immediate perceptions of our own oneness.