Mythological Quotes
39 quotes by 32 authors
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Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they've thought about and explored in their imaginations... But one thing I really like about…
— Henry Cavill
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Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Jessica Pearson isn't a unicorn. She's not a mythological creature. She's an example of so many women out there that are ruling their part of…
— Gina Torres
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Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to…
— Dennis Lehane
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The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and…
— Carl Jung
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Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to crush humanity or…
— Joseph Campbell
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There is no such thing as beauty. If your culture says, 'This is a beautiful girl,' that's within the framework of your culture. If you're…
— Jacque Fresco
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I’m so excited to begin working again with Henry Cavill in the world we created, and I can’t wait to expand the DC Universe in…
— Zack Snyder
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Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.
— H. Richard Niebuhr
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The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I…
— Mark Frost
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If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you.…
— Joseph Campbell
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Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
— Joseph Campbell
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The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In…
— Carl Jung
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In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.
— Tom Turner
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past,…
— Azar Nafisi
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Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I…
— Nick Moran
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I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence…
— Peter Coyote
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Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.
— William Shatner
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In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and…
— Rachel Cusk
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