Mythic Quotes

63 quotes by 56 authors

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content. — Arthur Boyd
But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see the opening-creativity is… — Ken Wilber
Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory. — William Kennedy
The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the self. This circular image represents the… — Carl Jung
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in knowing… — David Ebershoff
And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a… — Paul Elie
There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that… — Joseph Campbell
Human beings are born and begin their evolution through the great spiral of consciousness, moving from archaic to magic to mythic to rational to perhaps… — Ken Wilber
There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one… — Charles de Lint
Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it… — Michael Moorcock
In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads… — Rene Daumal
In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves and… — Terrance Hayes
A paradox: the same century invented history and photography. But history is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes… — Roland Barthes
I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull… — Joyce Tenneson
In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays… — William Irwin Thompson
We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday… — Michael Crichton
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy… — Andrea Dworkin
My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays… — Tom Perrotta
My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become… — Carol Leifer
I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies… — Rian Johnson

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