quotes about Odin

last updated: November 28, 2023

We can see from the experience of Odin that the image of the tree was the template within which all of the sacred world could be apprehended. The tree was the framework within which one "flew" to these Otherworlds. And since the exploration of sacred space was also a quest into the nature of human consciousness, the tree was regarded as an image of the ways in which we, humans, are constructed psychically. It was a natural model for our deepest wisdom, our highest aspirations.
-- Brian Bates

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Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?...' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.
-- Ricky Gervais

Source : "Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist". blogs.wsj.com. December 19, 2010.

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To Odin many a soul was driven, to Odin many a rich gift given.
-- Snorri Sturluson

Source : Snorri Sturluson, Samuel Laing (1844). “The Heimskringla”, p.357, London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans

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“For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.”
“The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.”
“I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?”
“I always took my workouts serious because I have a football background. I came from football, so when I got to baseball, I continued my football workouts in the offseason.”

Source : Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. July 14, 2014.
“For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.”
“New blood keeps us alive.”
“The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends the earthly rootedness of human language. For narrated events always happen somewhere. And for an oral culture, that location is never merely incidental to those occurrences. The events belong, as it were, to the place, and to tell the story of those events is to let the place itself speak through the telling.”

Source : David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.163, Vintage
“Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.”
“I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.”

Source : "The Observer interview: Rupert Friend" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2009.
“Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!”