Best Mythology Quotes
290 Mythology quotes by 211 unique authors
-
Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ,…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
-
The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,' but they are.…
— Charles Eisenstein
-
Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather…
— Bruce Willis
-
I can't compare these movies (Vampire Academy/Twilight/Harry Potter). Every single one of them has their own mythology.
— Danila Kozlovsky
-
I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of The Hunger Games.
— Isabelle Fuhrman
-
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these…
— Joseph Campbell
-
Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams again. Freud, too,…
— Gary Valentine
-
Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
— Kenneth Anger
-
Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel…
— Emily Browning
-
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
— Carl Jung
-
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
— John C. Maxwell
-
I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved it. I had…
— Unknown Author
-
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts…
— Ambrose Bierce
-
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them…
— Plato
-
It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples.
— Unknown Author
-
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on…
— John F. Kennedy
-
Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
-
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
— Alistair Cooke
-
I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or…
— Jody Williams
-
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply…
— Stephen Jay Gould
-
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
— Anish Kapoor
-
History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to…
— Jane Hirshfield
-
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are…
— Stanley Kunitz
-
A great brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that connects with something very deep – a fundamental…
— Scott Bedbury
-
Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.
— James Hillman
More Ways to Read Mythology Quotes
Who Wrote These Mythology Quotes
211 authors contributed a total of 290 Mythology Quotes, led by these top contributors: