Mythology Quotes - Page 3

• In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious

  Carl Jung

  Taken, Collective Unconscious, Astrology

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1972). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Not the wretchedest man or woman but has a deep secretive mythology with which to wrestle with the material world and to overcome it and pass beyond it. Not the wretchedest human being but has his share in the creative energy that builds the world. We are all creators. We all create a mythological world of our own out of certain shapeless materials.

  John Cowper Powys

  Men, Creative, Overcoming

  "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys (p. 222), 1929.

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• [Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are.

  Baron Vaughn

  Memories, Believe, Fit

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn't heard of the books, but I was told they were very popular amongst the kids, so I got a hold of them and read them. I totally got it!

  Steve Valentine

  Book, Kids, Passion

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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

  Fantasy, Rich, Feels

  Source: www.phantastik-couch.de

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• Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. . . . Myth has two main functions. The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children ask, such as: 'Who made the world? How will it end? Who was the first man? Where do souls go after death?'. . . . The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs.

  Robert Graves

  Religious, Children, Believe

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• I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

  Robert Redford

  Believe, Culture, Share

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• It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.

  Nicolas Cage

  Greek, Secret, Levels

  "Nicolas Cage GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Simple. Atlantis can't be found." He scoffed at her. " You're the second person to tell me that in less than an hour.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Simple, Atlantis, Greek Mythology

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.75, Macmillan

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• I'm very at home working with mythology.

  Tori Amos

  Home

  "Tori Amos: 20 years after her solo debut". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2011.

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• In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.

  Bob Beauprez

  Doors, Hands, Cities

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• My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She was also the first person to encourage me to submit stories for publication. The idea of writing a fantasy based on myths never left me, and many years later, this would lead me to write Percy Jackson.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Writing, Years

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• I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Order, Needs

  "Alan Moore Gets Psychogeographical With Unearthing". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. August 9, 2010.

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• 'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

  Neil Gaiman

  Doctors, Greek, Firsts

  "Neil Gaiman Talks DOCTOR WHO Episode “Nightmare in Silver,” Evolving the Cybermen, Creating the Cybermites, His View on the TARDIS and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2013.

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• When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that's true. It's amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science, we find the same thing. It's exactly so.

  Joseph Campbell

  Rain, Origin Of Life, Icons

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.10, New World Library

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• I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.

  Rick Riordan

  Character, Odin, Norse

  "Cover reveal: Rick Riordan's heroes meet in 'The Son of Sobek'". Interview with Lindsay Deutsch, www.usatoday.com. May 7, 2013.

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• If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

  Reginald Hudlin

  Black, Comic Book, Modern

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• There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character.

  Jeremy Renner

  Character, People, Greek

  "The Bourne Legacy's Jeremy Renner, action hero at last". Interview with Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2012.

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• What they teach you as history is mythology and true mythology is far from fantasy -- it is our true history. A bulk of our real history can be found in Egyptian and Greek mythology. Yes, myths reveal to us worlds of other dimensions that make up our true reality. History books teach us that the minds of the past operated on the same frequency, dimension, or level of consciousness as we do now. Not true at all.

  Suzy Kassem

  Real, Book, Past

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• According to ancient mythology, trees link the Earth to the sky. In this respect trees link humans to another world.

  Richard Allen

  Sky, Tree, World

  Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.1, The Miegunyah Press

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• II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Greek, Littles, Far Away

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• Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

  Roland Barthes

  Knowledge, World, Formulas

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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• I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Strong, Others Opinions, Giving

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• I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

  Terry Gross

  Memories, Self, Knowing

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