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• It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

  Alfred Loisy

  Reflection, Personality, Kind

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• One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only preserved in a formal and abstract form what mythology contains in living and concrete form.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Vitality, Language, Speak

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• The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn't. The United States makes a net gain. People believe it's a world government, although the UN is a pathetically weak organization which improvises in emergencies to try to prevent the worst from happening.

  Brian Urquhart

  Money, Believe, World Government

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• The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Drug, Sexuality

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The elephant which supports the world is called Muha-pudma, and the the tortoise which supports the elephant is called Chukwa. In some of the Eastern mythologies we are told that the world stands on the backs of eight elephants, called Achtequed-jams.

  E. Cobham Brewer

  Eight, Elephants, Support

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• Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, there should be a marked absence of perfection in a muse--a gaping hole between what she is and what she might be. The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed.

  Kathleen Tessaro

  Creativity, Character, Rough Edges

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• My personal life is a source of incredible happiness for me, but it's personal and it's not for me to hock, or shop around to the highest bidder. Plus, it could never live up to the amazing mythology that everyone online has created for me, so I'll keep mum about it.

  Matt Bomer

  Life Is, Incredibles, Online

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 10, 2010.

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• Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and I'm itching to read more.

  Rick Remender

  Wicked, Divine, Jamie

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• Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship. This harmony is most evident in remote places like this, and I hope it does not loose its unique character in the ruthless urban advance.

  Ruskin Bond

  Character, Animal, Unique

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• One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something projected from the brain, but something experienced from the heart, from recognition of identities behind or within the appearances of nature, perceiving with love a 'thou' where there would otherwise have been only an 'it.'

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Heart, Brain

  Joseph Campbell (2002). “The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion”, p.19, New World Library

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• The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Gratitude, Views, Heaven

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.87

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• When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states.
  This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come.
  That is the country that we are going to be celebrating.
  And those are the people that we are one with.

  Joseph Campbell

  Country, Moon, People

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.41, Anchor

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• I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept has had a constant influence on the work. I have imagined her as ubiquitous, watchful, and often in motion. This work is, in effect, the photographic image of the invisible.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Divine Feminine, Humanity, Influence

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• The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

  Martin Filler

  Artist, Creative, Misunderstood

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• I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we can live sanely with it, since some forms of knowledge are too dark, or too complex, to be plainly spoken. And so we have these weird (and also sometimes entertaining and surprising and heartening) tales that belong to all of us.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Dark, Way, Sometimes

  "'Something Just Beyond Words'". Interview with Molly McArdle, logger.believermag.com. April 25, 2014.

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• One of the things that really intrigued us the most about the whole Wonder Woman mythology is the actual mythology of it. Her character has distinct roots in classic Greek mythology.

  Bruce Timm

  Character, Roots, Greek

  "Bruce Timm Dishes on Wonder Woman". movieweb.com. January 16, 2009.

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• If we come from good families where we have been supported well, there is a disillusionment we have to undergo in terms of the culture's values. We have to get beyond our cultural mythology to find out who we are.

  Sam Keen

  Culture, Who We Are, Good Family

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Every so often you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can’t let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer’s room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.

  Eric Kripke

  Want, Rooms, Plot

  "Creator Eric Kripke Discusses The Essential Supernatural: On the Road with Sam and Dean Winchester". Interview with Amanda Dyar, www.dreadcentral.com. December 18, 2012.

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• There was this kind of mildly annoying mythology about conductor Like biker should riding a Harley-Davidson on an LP cover, and wearing a sort of a leather suit.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Suits, Riding, Bikers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Tea Obreht

  Thinking, Young, Ran

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• Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

  James Surowiecki

  Victim, Company

  "All Together Now" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. April 11, 2005.

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• NFL Films has had one continuous, creative vision for 47 years. These are timeless things; timeless stories that we capture just like people go back and read Greek mythology.

  Steve Sabol

  Years, Nfl, People

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

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• FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lost.' We have one major event that happens that you are asked to buy into. After that, you're dealing with very human ripple effects - how people deal with it and how they come to terms with it.

  Sonya Walger

  People, Events, Sci Fi

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• I was always interested in myths growing up. So, first I got into some Roman myths, then I was interested in Norse, then Celtic, then I started spreading to all the other mythologies.

  Grant Morrison

  Growing Up, Firsts, Celtic

  "Grant Morrison Talks Comics, Magic, Life and Death". Interview with A. David Lewis, www.publishersweekly.com. August 11, 2008.

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• The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Crush, Fire, Flames

  "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". Book by Jonathan Edwards, July 8, 1741.

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