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
“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
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
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
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
You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities.… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“When he heard these words, Loke ceased to look like a god, for the fury and hate of a devil were in… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“My aunt and my mother read to me when I was three from all the old Grimm fairy tales, Andersen fairy tales,… — Ray Bradbury 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
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
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
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
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
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
The elephant which supports the world is called Muha-pudma, and the the tortoise which supports the elephant is called Chukwa. In some… — E. Cobham Brewer 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
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
In mythology, the Medusa can petrify people with a look - which is a good thing, I think. But the Medusa is… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
I've come across a novel called The Palm-Wine Drinkard, by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, that is really remarkable because it is… — William Golding 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
I was born in the kingdom of Denmark, the birthplace of famous Danish fairytale writer, Hans Christian Andersen. His magical stories have… — Morten Andersen Copy Share Image
“Readiness for action is the root of all kingly duties. Listen to the verse sung by Vrihaspati: By exertion the amrita was… — Meera Uberoi Copy Share Image
The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths,… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
“Our destiny is aligned with our heart's innermost longing, a longing embedded within our soul before birth. This longing is a unique… — Thea Euryphaessa Copy Share Image
What's most remarkable about the conservative activists who promote a small, hysterical group of conspiracy theorists claiming a Muslim theocracy is the… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
