If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
KGBeast starts chasing our heroes in a big way, and you get the return of an old character from the mythology that… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“Mortals were such fickle creatures. They called into the dark, demanded answers and attention from forces they could not comprehend, and yet… — Philippa Ballantine Copy Share Image
I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“The picture of the bacchante who stands motionless and stares into space must have been well known. Catullus is thinking of her… — Walter F. Otto Copy Share Image
“The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created the physical universe particularly… — Tim Maudlin Copy Share Image
“The myths of Hylas, Adonis, Lityerses, and Linus describes the annual mourning for the sacred king of his boy-surrogate, sacrificed to placate… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the individual citizen is of less value than the knowledge of science. The former is the opinion of individuals.… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I was way into 'Voltron,' Ray Harryhausen: anything with giant monsters, I was really into. Even dinosaurs - for a while, I… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world… — Stephen H. Furrer Copy Share Image
“Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will you tell them?" "I… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had 'more,' we would be more comfortable and… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to… — Glenn Quinn Copy Share Image
With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist.… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
I think the show [Grimm] became a little more procedural following the pilot, and I didn't know that would happen. Recently more… — David Giuntoli Copy Share Image
“Many more have died of attempting love than victory, and countless numbers hate love more than war. Honor has often been the… — Patricia Storace Copy Share Image
Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“What would ever become of Tilly-Valley's religion in that world, with headlights flashing along cemented highways, and all existence dominated by electricity?… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say… — Theodoret Copy Share Image
When reviewing my novel Dreams of the Compass Rose for the Magazine of F&SF, master fantasist Charles de Lint called it "engaging… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth,… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“I have a very clear memory of my first encounter with myth, sitting in a mobile library and travelling, at the same… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“from "Semele Recycled" But then your great voice rang out under the skies my name!-- and all those private names for the… — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
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