Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth Copy Share Image
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“-’Tell me’, he said, ‘who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one’? -’A happy one, of course.’ -’Wrong. A… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The period before the deluge was the one of revelation in the Mesopotamian mythology, when the basis of all later knowledge was… — Amar Annus Copy Share Image
Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities.… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Eros mumbled something. "I'm sorry?" said Aphrodite. "Whatwouldjesusdo." "What would Jesus do?" said Aphrodite. "Let me tell you something. Jesus was a… — Marie Phillips Copy Share Image
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
“[Hades] returned his attention to the playlist while I eased the car back on the road. His fingers flipped deftly over the… — Kaitlin Bevis Copy Share Image
Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
“There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of… — Ferdinand Cohn Copy Share Image
“This story twists the ancient myths we grow up with,” Berger says, “where what the reader knows about the Olympian gods, or… — David Berger Copy Share Image
There is a diverse meaning to the lyrics as well. A lot of the stuff I write is from a personal level… — Johan Hegg Copy Share Image
“Once every hundred years, two souls are brought together through the veil of time. They are deemed the chosen ones by the… — Mary Morgan Copy Share Image
“Whatever their imagined source, the doctrines of modern religions are no more tenable than those which, for lack of adherents, were cast… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The cool thing about being a writer is: you get to make stuff up. When I started wring about Vampires, I realized,… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
“And no small part of this unpredicted miracle was the curious innocence of these people in the very midst of their freedom… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite… — Weili Dai Copy Share Image
“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“In either mythology, ancient Irish or modern Jungian, we see the struggle to arrive at a workable arrangement with the forces of… — Peter O'Connor Copy Share Image
![“Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I find myself at present), I think it is best to choose such a denomination as means nothing of itself and thus can give no rise to any erroneous ideas. In…” quote by Martin Heinrich Klaproth](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a19/martin-heinrich-klaproth-72236_cases_wherefore-no-name-can-be-found-for-a-new_432955.png)
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