[I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. He is either on a horse or driving… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in… — Helen Lawrenson Copy Share Image
The 'teavangelicals' of the 21st century have flipped the script, turning their ideas about Christianity, social responsibility, and care for the downtrodden… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
There's nothing noble or selfless about politicians and there never has been. Putting it charitably, Profiles in Courage is a compendium of… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and,… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“I quickly dropped my hands and changed the subject. "So those two who visited me the other night. Who were they?" I… — Robin Burks Copy Share Image
One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
“We did not get on much further, for in another moment we were caught by a terrific squall from the West that… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Even Cronus, the Titan who literally had his kids for breakfast, would find these facts hard to swallow.” — Tai Odunsi Copy Share Image
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out,… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The Met is such a powerful place for me because it's a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Obi-Wan understands that the best thing he can do is contribute something positive to the world around him and then to leave.… — Samuel Witwer Copy Share Image
The story of my grandmother is that of a French woman from the provinces who through her perseverance and thirst for knowledge… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
“It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“Her uneasy gaze skittered along the length of his arms, which were exposed by his rolled-up shirtsleeves... and stopped at the astonishing… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image