Western culture Quote by Helen Morales

“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign. We'll look…

— Kate Bornstein

“Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed with fragments…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born of the…

— Helen Morales

“Myths have always been archetypal realities, that through history or legend, remind the human being of his origin, his destiny, and the meaning of…

— Javier Cazañ

“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the…

— Joseph Campbell

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the…

— Joseph Campbell

I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree…

— Wole Soyinka

Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

— Karen Russell

“Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the world and…

— Jo Walton

“Every culture has its version. It's universal. One of the things that is most fascinating about studying mythology is how so many of the…

— M.J. Rose

“If ‘myth’ is a slippery term, so is ‘classical’. It is common shorthand for ‘ancient Greek and Roman’. But this shorthand has a history,…

— Helen Morales

I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we can live…

— Helen Oyeyemi