Children Quote by Hermann Hesse

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

— Will Durant

In the beginning of their end, people created their gods and their after-lives.

— Ryan Miller

Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed their idea…

— Henry McNeal Turner

It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word…

— James Hillman

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms,…

— Ray Bradbury

“Story is one of the most powerful ways we pattern our world and discover its meaningfulness. It goes beyond mere embellishment of a spiritual…

— Sarah Arthur

“I see folktales and myths as humankind's first stories. They are a kind of collective dreaming, filled with timeless symbols and images we can…

— Marianna Mayer

The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of…

— Mark Rothko

In the beginning was the myth.

— Hermann Hesse

Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of…

— Joseph Campbell

“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

“Classical mythology has been so influential upon Western culture that everyone who is alive to the art,culture,politics, and languages of today encounters it.”

— Helen Morales