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We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past.... The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction... Not… — Thomas L. Thompson
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the… — Fritjof Capra
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.… — Robert Graves
The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This… — Germaine Greer
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist — Anish Kapoor
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. — Leopold von Ranke
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people. — Wynton Marsalis
There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples… — Joseph Campbell
I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away.… — Hedi Slimane
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers. — William Robertson Smith
The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as the European does,… — Ted Simon
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book,… — Thomas Bulfinch
Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when… — John Steakley
Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing… — Damon Lindelof
Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while… — Joe McNally
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then… — Thomas Bulfinch
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. — Thomas Bulfinch
Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility. — Terry Eagleton
There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men… — Lester Thurow
The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should be judged by… — Robert Green Ingersoll
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively… — Michio Kaku
Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology. — Barbara Steele
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories,… — Unknown Author
Mythology is the womb of man's initiation to life and death. — Joseph Campbell

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