Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever… — John Wesley 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
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
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
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“The picture of the bacchante who stands motionless and stares into space must have been well known. Catullus is thinking of her… — Walter F. Otto Copy Share Image
I was nurtured on Greek Mythology and the classical epics. I lived and breathed Homer. Other mythologies - the Russian, the Norse,… — Vera Nazarian 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
I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow… — Tony Parsons 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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“I’m… “ I stop, at a loss. Griffin lifts his eyebrows. “Inarticulate at the moment?” Scowling, I thwack him in the chest.… — Amanda Bouchet Copy Share Image
Once [a soul] is condemned by God, then God's friends agree in God's judgment and condemnation. For all eternity they will not… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past… Each… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Unlike the ancients, modern man does not see Mother Earth as some kind of goddess like Gaia, the ancestral mother of all… — Barista Uno Copy Share Image
Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In this age of vampires, what I love about 'True Blood' the most is that it's a post-modern take on it. 'Sookie… — Michelle Forbes Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. ... These… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
If you look at 'The X-Files' generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not 'mythology' episodes, which tend to… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past… The Bible's "Israel" is a… — Thomas L. Thompson Copy Share Image
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“She can be anyone. Vengeful Hera, wrathful Hera, the queen of the heavens, most long-suffering of wives and cruellest of punishers, will… — Jennifer Saint Copy Share Image
“Yes, I’m Daniel Tahi." I know what your lips taste like.I know you roll your eyes when you think someone is an… — Lani Wendt Young 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
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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
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its… — Carl Jung 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
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
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
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