Mythology Quotes

290 quotes by 218 authors

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of… — Karen Armstrong
I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had. — Eric Bana
In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are… — Bob Beauprez
It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with… — Nicolas Cage
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them… — Joseph Campbell
I have built my world through Native American mythology. — Tori Amos
I'm very at home working with mythology. — Tori Amos
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era… — George Steiner
Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever. — Steve Crocker
Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology. — Vince Lombardi
When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost… — Joseph Campbell
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry… — Swami Vivekananda
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit… — Judith Crist
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. — Germaine Greer
Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its… — Loren Eiseley
At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these… — Carl Jung
In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology — Barack Obama
[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology. — Mark Twain

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