Mythology Quotes · Page 7

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

— Augustus William Hare

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

— Carl Jung

“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning”

— William Carlos Williams

“Do you know what I have in my heart? I have hope. And I'll share it with the world.”

— Amanda Bouchet

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

— Sandra Cisneros

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

— Leopold von Ranke

In general, I have a lot of issues with the mythology of the founder.

— Patrick Collison

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses…

— W. H. Auden

I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined…

— Vin Diesel

The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain…

— Thomas Aquinas

“In Ishmael I articulated a living mythology that is so integral to our culture that it’s never examined or even noticed by…

— Daniel Quinn

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming…

— Thomas Jefferson

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a…

— Anne Carson

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside.…

— Robert Shapiro

Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more…

— Camille Paglia

Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S.…

— Bob Beauprez

Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams…

— Gary Valentine

“Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-imbroider'd vale Where…

— John Milton

“From The Ghost Wars- on the concept of the Torah as ancient science fiction. “Take the story of the fall of the…

— Cole J. Davis

“As Mr. R. U. Sayee has well said: 'It should be clear a priori that fairy lore must have developed as a…

— Lewis Spence

Anybody who's a mythology ... there's always a fear. That's why we don't like people whose skin color is different, whose eye…

— John Shelby Spong

Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography…

— Francis Levy

It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and…

— Richard Baxter

“I want to hate you, to loathe you, to detest you, but for all my attempts, the need to touch you is…

— Nely Cab

“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.”

— Bryan Sykes

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

— Terry Eagleton

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

— Wole Soyinka

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

— Antoine Fuqua

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

— Andrew Lang

I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!

— Robin Williams

This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.

— Jeremy Taylor

“I want to read The Mark of Athena and The House of Hades by Rick Riordan!-Carter”

— Carter Ebert

“It was work, day after day of it. Witchcraft is the same. I have laboured for centuries and still I have not…

— Madeline Miller

There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.

— Werner Herzog

“The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.”

— Martin Shaw

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

— Virgil

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

— Jean Cocteau

I'm extremely into Greek Mythology and know almost everything about the classic Greek myths.

— Jinkx Monsoon

“Helios thought he looked pretty hot, and he had an annoying habit of calling the sun his "chick magnet.”

— Rick Riordan