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.

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.

Religon is misunderstood 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I loved all the world's mythologies.

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.

He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

I like mythology - anything historical.

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

It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.

Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

I'm very at home working with mythology.

Darth Maul dies and it's okay. And maybe he'll be picked up later and another actor will play him and that's okay. However if they call me up and they need him for this or that and they want me to play him, then that's okay too. I do actually love this character. I feel strongly about him. I feel badly for him and if there's anything more I can contribute to him or the larger Star Wars mythology I will continue to do so and if my time has come then I will watch as a fan the way I have since I was born.

Today's religions are nothing but the long-lived mythologies!

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.