Mythology Quotes

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts!

When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

Awe is what moves us forward.

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

Religon is misunderstood mythology

Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity.

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

We're separated by our myths.

For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad sense, there is no way to live without mythology.

Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

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.

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore, I find that stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

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

Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

We have reached a situation where a theory has been accepted as fact by some, and possible contrary evidence is shunted aside. [This is] mythology rather than science.

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

I can't compare these movies (Vampire Academy/Twilight/Harry Potter). Every single one of them has their own mythology.

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

We're pieces on a gameboard, Dr. March, and some of us are more powerful than others. You. Me. Her. We're the ones the gods want. We're the ones they're fighting over.

Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years.

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 speak with complete freedom.

I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?

I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.