God Complex Quotes

It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching - in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is watching.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Maybe it's God disguised as Michael Jordan.

Men create the gods in their own image.

I have an idea for a Godzilla movie that I've always wanted to do. The whole idea of Godzilla's role in Tokyo, where he's always battling these other monsters, saving humanity time and again - wouldn't Godzilla become God? It would be called 'Living Under the Rule of Godzilla.'

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib

Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day.

I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.

You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.

A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.

I believe there's a god above me, I'm just the god of everything else!

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Men study science as god not the God of science.

There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am.

Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.

When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility.

Every now and then I'll do little things, a short story or something, that doesn't have any fantastical elements, but mostly I like the power of playing God and I like to imagine things.

I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.

How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. There is nothing outside her. In her imagination she has set the limits and the terms. No atonement for God, or novelists, even if they are atheists. It was always an impossible task, and that was precisely the point. The attempt was all.

Sometimes I feel like God…when I order someone killed – they die the same day.