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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
Mary Augusta Ward
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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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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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Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.
Northrop Frye
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Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.
Werner Herzog
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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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It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples.
Martin Hengel
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North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.
Werner Herzog
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A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.
Joseph Campbell
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With this particular series [The Cursed Wheel] I'm going farther in that direction than I've tried before in terms of the elasticity of the mythology.
Scott Snyder
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I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...
Anne Rice
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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.
Hedi Slimane
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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.
Michael Scott
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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.
Conor Oberst
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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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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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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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I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs.
Amber Benson
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Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.
Gerald Hausman