In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“He shook his head again. “I’m afraid I don’t feel much of anything these days. Especially not hope. I have no time… — Josh Strnad Copy Share Image
“They yoked themselves to a car and drew her all the long way through dust and heat. Everyone admired their filial piety… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“I fear no hell, just as I expect no heaven. Nabokov summed up a nonbeliever’s view of the cosmos, and our place… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
“Tell me something. Do you believe in God?' Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?' 'It… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“We fell in love with that little peep-show projection on the inside of an iris, pictures that amount to nothing more than… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
“I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination." D'Molay the… — M.Scott Verne Copy Share Image
'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
The heathen mythology not only was not true, but was not even supported as true; it not only deserved no faith, but… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“Your mythology can and will change as you grow older and you learn more about life and the spiritual worlds. You are… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore, I find that stories people told each other thousands of… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power,… — Plato Copy Share Image
I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or… — Jody Williams Copy Share Image
“We're two fools, you know," he said, looking into her eyes. "I don't remember the moment I fell in love with you,… — Laurel Cremant Copy Share Image
There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
One of the things that really intrigued us the most about the whole Wonder Woman mythology is the actual mythology of it.… — Bruce Timm Copy Share Image
“The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
For the liver, what's so interesting is that there's no stem cell in the liver. So the normal liver actually can regenerate.… — Sangeeta N. Bhatia Copy Share Image
“Demon” means “knowledge” in Greek. “Science” means “knowledge” in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
