Godlike Quotes

“Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The excellence of the soul is understanding; for the man who understands is conscious, devoted, and already godlike.”
― Hermes Trismegistus

“We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.”
― Russell Shorto, Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason

“A clock that is moving through space at a very fast speed does not tick at the same rate as a slow-moving watch gently attached to your wrist as you stroll on a tropical beach. The idea of a universal time - a godlike clock that could somehow sit outside our universe and measure, in one go, the movement of everything in it, how its evolution unfolds, how old it is and all that - does not exist.”
― Christophe Galfard, The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond

“And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“There’s something about a heart that can love fully and purely, without blemish, even after it had been hurt. Such a heart is truly godlike.”
― TemitOpe Ibrahim

“The hefty figure of M. de Guermantes was seated beside her, proud and Olympian. One got the impression that the notion of his vast riches was omnipresent in all his limbs, giving him an extraordinary density, as though they had been smelted in a crucible into a single human ingot to create this man who was worth so much.”
― Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

“It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked on from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Warden

“Sind Götter! Wundersam eigen,
Die sich immerfort selbst erzeugen,
Und niemals wissen was sie sind.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

“Upon entering the main room, Evie discovered her husband lounging in a large, old-fashioned slipper tub. Since the lavatory was too small to allow for a tub, a portable one had to be carried in by footmen and laboriously filled with large cans of hot water brought by housemaids.
Sebastian leaned back with one long leg propped at the far end of the tub, a crystal glass of brandy clasped negligently in one hand. His once tawny amber hair was handsomely silvered at the sides and temples. The daily ritual of a morning swim had kept him fit and limber, his skin glowing as if he existed in perpetual summer. He might have been Apollo lazing on Olympus: a decadent golden sun god utterly lacking in modesty.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil's Daughter

“If you can escape math and numbers or be behind it - you become godlike. In case you are human, everything you do or is done to you can be put into a number.”
― Thomas Vato

“In the second book of his great autobiographical word, Confessions, Augustine fretted at length over a childish act of vandalism that he committed long ago with some teenage friends; he was now struggling to understand the motive behind an action that seemed to serve no purpose whatsoever. He concluded that he broke the law for no other reason than the thrill of breaking it, experiencing a rush he calls a 'deceptive sense of omnipotence.'

By this phrase he meant that such gratuitous lawbreaking provides the illusion of being as free from the restraints of the moral law as is God, who must be imagined as both creating the moral law and existing outside it. But Augustine went on to say that this attempt to be a god is really only a 'perverse and vicious imitation' of the real deity, not only because it’s so obviously an illusion but also because the very attempt to be like God tacitly concedes that God is a superior model to be imitated.”
― Brian McDonald