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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 Elizabeth Janeway Mary Augusta Ward Roland Barthes Amos Bronson Alcott John Cusack Richard Dawkins Ray William Johnson Cassie Steele Gerald Hausman Tea Obreht Eric Kripke Lloyd Alexander Zsuzsanna Budapest Anish Kapoor Thomas Bulfinch Bernard Malamud Gilbert K. Chesterton Ralph Waldo Emerson Carl Jung Hugh Hefner Gaspard Ulliel Anne Rice Martin Hengel Robert Bringhurst Tobias Wolff Conor Oberst Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Bel Kaufman
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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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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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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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Religon is misunderstood mythology
Joseph Campbell

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

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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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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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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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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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I loved all the world's mythologies.
Lloyd Alexander

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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I'm very at home working with mythology.
Tori Amos