Mythology Quotes

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

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.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

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

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

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

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

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

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.

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

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

Religon is misunderstood mythology

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.

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

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

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

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.

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

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

I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away. There is something almost haunted about it, a vibrant mythology I find rather inspiring.

Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.

A lot of the mythology that sprung up around Haile Selassie, it's not like something he asked for, having people deify him. That's pretty heavy. I don't know what you do in that situation.

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

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

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

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

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.

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

Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.

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

I loved all the world's mythologies.

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

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

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.

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

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

I have built my world through Native American mythology.