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

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.

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

I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.