Best Mythology Quotations
290 Mythology quotes by 211 unique authors
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Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.
— Joseph Campbell
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It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the…
— Alfred Loisy
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One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has…
— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn't.…
— Unknown Author
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The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.
— Germaine Greer
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The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The elephant which supports the world is called Muha-pudma, and the the tortoise which supports the elephant is called Chukwa. In some of the Eastern…
— E. Cobham Brewer
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Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact,…
— Kathleen Tessaro
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If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness…
— Christopher McDougall
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The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but are systematically encouraged…
— Robert Jensen
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Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and I'm itching to…
— Rick Remender
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Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship.…
— Ruskin Bond
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One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something…
— Joseph Campbell
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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
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Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for the…
— Joseph Campbell
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I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and…
— Joseph Campbell
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I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or…
— George Lucas
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I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of…
— Anne Rice
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UFO mythology is similar to the message of the classical religions where God sends his Angels as emissaries who offer salvation to those who accept…
— Paul Kurtz
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According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those…
— Gail Sheehy
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In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious
— Carl Jung
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The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to…
— Martin Filler
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It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.
— Joseph Campbell
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Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.
— Seth Godin
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According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.
— Richard Allen
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