Mythology Quotes

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  I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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• Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.

  Christopher Nolan

  Jobs, Taken, Superhero

  "'He's not a god - he's human'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.

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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

  Children, Needs, Myth

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

  Northrop Frye

  Philosophy, Literature, Imaginative

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham (2003). “Northrop Frye's Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts”, p.158, University of Toronto Press

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• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Wisdom, Blood, Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

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• We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Ideas

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• I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Thinking, Doe

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.65, Anchor

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• The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Integrity, Fall

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• Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Political, Belief

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “I have tried to tell the truth: 1943-1944”

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• Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Dream, Business

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• If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you. And that enables you to interpret the myth in relation to life, as well as life in relation to myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Finding Yourself, Mind

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• The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Effectiveness, Growth, Depth

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• According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

  Plato

  Two, Greek, Half

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• Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Night, Forgotten

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• Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Truth, Important

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• If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, World, Want

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• It was Sci-Fi and fantasy that got me reading, and Sci-Fi writers in particular have pack rat minds. They introduce all sorts of interesting themes and ideas into their books, and so for me it was a short leap to go from the fantasy and Sci-Fi genres to folklore, mythology, ancient history and philosophy. I did not read philosophy because I set out to become a philosopher; I read it because it looked interesting.

  Terry Pratchett

  Philosophy, Book, Reading

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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

  Werner Herzog

  Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of The Hunger Games.

  Isabelle Fuhrman

  Strong, Katniss, Games

  "Need to Meet: Isabelle Fuhrman". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. March 1, 2012.

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• In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Daughter, Dream, Soul

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Tales of Mystery and Imagination”

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• They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

  Aeschylus

  Home, Men, Battle

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

  Roger Zelazny

  Knows

  Roger Zelazny (1989). “Frost and Fire”, William Morrow

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• I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

  Brendan Fraser

  Believe, Thinking, Greek

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

  Mark Twain

  Religion, Fables, Tradition

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.32, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Absence, Pantheon

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.2, New World Library

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