“A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“LOOK, I’M ONLY IN THIS FOR THE PIZZA. The publisher was like, “Oh, you did such a great job writing about the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our… — John Frederick Nims Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get… — Eric Kripke 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
“The fervor and single-mindedness of this deification probably have no precedent in history. It's not like Duvalier or Assad passing the torch… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
“It is one thing for modern educated people to feel they must believe these old stories as factual when science proves otherwise.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“She was prepared for him to shut her down, when Behr shrugged a shoulder and said, “Yeah, sounds good. I think it’s… — Brandi Salazar Copy Share Image
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“Then the woman in the bed sat up and looked about her with wild eyes; and the oldest of the old men… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Studios are so used to digital now and there is a mythology that it's cheaper. But it's really not cheaper. For instance,… — Don Scardino Copy Share Image
There is a current mythology in our culture that anytime we meet someone and have that "enchanted evening" experience, that experience of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“It must be understood that in some cases the process by which a god or goddess degenerates into a fairy may occupy… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think Jesus is a fact of history. I think a man named Jesus of Nazareth lived and was crucified. I think… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He,… — Justin Martyr 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
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
The most interesting to me were Doctor Strange, because he was so mystic, and Thor, because that was really cool. I mean,… — Trina Robbins Copy Share Image
“Because the creator of all the worlds cannot be a participant in worldly matters. Gods are the detached operators of the contents… — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
Photography is there to construct the idea of us as a great family and we go on vacations and take these pictures… — Larry Sultan 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
“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
“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
In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Narcissistic personality disorder is named for Narcissus, from Greek mythology, who fell in love with his own reflection. Freud used the term… — Donald W. Black Copy Share Image
Subjective reason ... is inclined to abandon the fight with religion by setting up two different brackets, one for science and philosophy,… — Max Horkheimer 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
