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Mythology Quotes

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There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.
Peter Higgs

Authors on Mythology Quotes: Joseph Campbell Werner Herzog Rick Riordan Northrop Frye Tori Amos Jean Cocteau Scott Snyder Amber Benson George Lucas Samuel Witwer Cassandra Clare Mary Augusta Ward Roland Barthes Elizabeth Janeway John Cusack Richard Dawkins Amos Bronson Alcott Gerald Hausman Ray William Johnson Cassie Steele Lloyd Alexander Zsuzsanna Budapest Tea Obreht Eric Kripke Anish Kapoor Gilbert K. Chesterton Thomas Bulfinch Bernard Malamud Gaspard Ulliel Ralph Waldo Emerson Carl Jung Hugh Hefner Martin Hengel
2.
Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology.
Patricia Piccinini

3.
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
Bernard Malamud

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Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.
Richard Dawkins

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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

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Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a
Joseph Campbell

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Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.
Zsuzsanna Budapest

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An entire mythology is stored within our language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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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.
Joseph Campbell

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

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

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Religon is misunderstood mythology
Joseph Campbell

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

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

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We're separated by our myths.
Hugh Hefner

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

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

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

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

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I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.
Bill Ayers

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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
Mary Augusta Ward

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

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Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.
Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.
Ray William Johnson

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Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.
Werner Herzog

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Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
Northrop Frye

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I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.
George Lucas

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I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.
Rick Riordan

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Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.
Tobias Wolff

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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
Amos Bronson Alcott

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It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples.
Martin Hengel

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Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
Bel Kaufman

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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
Tea Obreht

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Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
Ashwin Sanghi

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Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.
James Surowiecki

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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 Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
Thomas Bulfinch

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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.
Devdutt Pattanaik

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I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.
Antoine Fuqua

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Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.
Gerald Hausman

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I loved all the world's mythologies.
Lloyd Alexander

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I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs.
Amber Benson

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The more that you travel the more you get the sense of the word as a larger place and the more you get a sense of the variety of history and mythology. And when you know about these things you can incorporate them into what I feel is a more rich and more large tapestry of fantasy.
Cassandra Clare

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Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
Elizabeth Janeway

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Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.
Rick Riordan

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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I have built my world through Native American mythology.
Tori Amos

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I like mythology - anything historical.
Cassie Steele

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Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.
Eric Kripke