In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology,… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
“It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together,… — M.C. Sburlea Copy Share Image
“The pain in my heart was worse than anything I ever imagined. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't think. All I could feel… — Nely Cab Copy Share Image
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
“Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go. You could… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and… — Judith Crist Copy Share Image
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
“Allegorical stories of saints battling with giants, monsters and demons may be interpreted as symbolizing the Christian's fight against paganism. At Bwlch… — Colin Bord Copy Share Image
I'll start with where we are right now. The map that I'll use is this birthing process, this kind of profound transition… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The Canopic Inversion by Stewart Stafford In nascent light, their nose-rings entwined, Like a brazen Hathor daughter, Funnelled to market and auction,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to… — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
“There are multiple roads. You alone choose the ones you take. Some lead to the same destination via different pathways. Others lead… — Amanda Bouchet Copy Share Image
I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's… — Brendan Fraser 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
It was really John's [Musker] idea to begin with to tell a story set in the world of the South Pacific, Polynesia.… — Ron Clements Copy Share Image
Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology.… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,'… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Courting a princess does come with a few perks. Such as an immortal madwoman chasing us to the ends of the realm."… — K.V. Wilson Copy Share Image
When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake… — Mary Pratt Copy Share Image
Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's… — Julia Cameron 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
Steven Spielberg name is synonymous with Hollywood. You sometimes meet people who revel in their own mythology, and he doesn't feel like… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
“If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first album, I was reading Joseph Campbell - he's this philosopher who writes about mythology. That inspired the… — MO Copy Share Image
“Once humanity discovers what's behind the mirror of all the ruling class of governments and religions there will be a new beginning… — Charleston Parker Copy Share Image
For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. .… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image