The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“Maybe I’m inclined to what Nietzsche called “impure thought,” that is to say, a kind of thought where abstractions are so mixed with the… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“As the Greeks see it, elegance arises from excavation, from the cavity.” — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster,… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
“They had to stir the churn of the ocean, until the soma floated up, as butter floats from milk. And this task could not… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward. — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
