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For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. -- Thomas Bulfinch
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
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
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. -- J. K. Rowling
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
Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. -- Gerald Hausman
Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history. -- Zsuzsanna Budapest
Mythology is the womb of man's initiation to life and death. -- Joseph Campbell
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion. -- Elizabeth Janeway
Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped. -- Devdutt Pattanaik
Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way. -- Devdutt Pattanaik
Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty. -- Stefan Molyneux
Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message. -- Penelope Lively
A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion. -- Joseph Campbell
Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted. -- Henry David Thoreau
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it. -- Bel Kaufman
Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology. -- Joseph Campbell
Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle. -- William Shatner
Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity. -- Joseph Campbell
Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology. -- Augustus William Hare
Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from. -- Thomm Quackenbush
Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature. -- Karen Russell
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. -- Jean Cocteau
Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world. -- Wole Soyinka
I'm certainly not surprised by the passion of the youth for our myths. Mythology is almost a part of an Indian's DNA. -- Amish Tripathi
Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as popular misunderstanding of mythology. (8) -- Joseph Campbell
Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Mythology and history are my passion. I grew up in a religious family and learnt about our scriptures and philosophies. It's the language I'm comfortable with. -- Amish Tripathi
Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write. -- Vangelis
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear. -- George Lucas
Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe. -- Ashwin Sanghi
I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne! -- Rick Riordan
Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays? -- John Steakley
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
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then -- Alison Bechdel
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it. -- Karen Armstrong
Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we're a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves. -- Joseph Campbell
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience. -- Joseph Campbell
Love cannot live where there is no trust. -- Edith Hamilton
Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day. -- Carl Jung
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness. -- John C. Maxwell
I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call. -- Roger Zelazny
II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology. -- Mads Mikkelsen
The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it. -- Martin Parr
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. -- Thomas Bulfinch
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology. -- Carl Jung
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. -- Joseph Campbell
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn -- Aeschylus
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
'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless. -- Michael Franti
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. -- Umberto Eco
The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world. -- Clarence John Laughlin
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
Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish. -- William Poundstone
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
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
You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems. -- Jack Kevorkian
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education. -- Thomas Bulfinch
The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply one of modern fiction's attempts to shake off that mythology and replace it with something a bit more honest. -- Richard K. Morgan
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
There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies. -- Alan Moore
In mythology and palmistry, the left hand is called the dreamer because the ring finger on the left hand leads directly to the heart. I find it a very poetic idea. And that's why I only wear nail polish on my left ring finger. -- Gloria Vanderbilt
In our national mythology, we seem to include only one-way migrations to the great capitol cities. The journey from the small Wisconsin town or Minnesota city to Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. Certainly for some people, that journey is a round trip. -- Mona Simpson
Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future. -- Michio Kaku
I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change. -- Jody Williams
Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin. -- M.I.A.
Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation. -- Mariella Frostrup
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
I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new! -- Rick Riordan
Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar. -- James Surowiecki
I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I still really love the world and the universe and the mythology of 'Halo.' If I was given control, I would really like to do that film. But that's the problem. When something pre-exists, there's this idea of my own interpretation versus 150 other people involved with the film's interpretation of the same intellectual property. -- Neill Blomkamp
Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them? -- Devdutt Pattanaik
Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for $31,500. He seemed to answer to a deeply rooted, distinctly American mythology, in which decency and common sense triumphed over cosmopolitan guile, and in which an idealized past held firm against a rootless and too hurriedly changing present. -- Roger Lowenstein
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering. -- J. Michael Straczynski
There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come. -- Joseph Campbell
Religon is misunderstood mythology -- Joseph Campbell
I like mythology - anything historical. -- Cassie Steele
My Greek mythology is not strong enough. -- Karl Rove
I'm very at home working with mythology. -- Tori Amos
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology. -- Evan Osnos
An entire mythology is stored within our language. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
I have built my world through Native American mythology. -- Tori Amos
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology. -- Germaine Greer
Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology. -- Vince Lombardi
The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology. -- Bernard Malamud
I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff. -- Tyson Chandler
[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology. -- Mark Twain
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. -- Mary Augusta Ward
I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism. -- Antoine Fuqua
Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop. -- Werner Herzog
I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had. -- Eric Bana
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology. -- Richard King
If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial. -- Reginald Hudlin
Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul. -- James Hillman
I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology. -- George Lucas
The first function of mythology is showing everything as a metaphor to transcendence. -- Joseph Campbell
Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends. -- Kenneth Anger
I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on. -- Anne Rice
I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters. -- Rick Riordan
The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. -- Michael J. Findley
I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free! -- Robin Williams
Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature. -- Northrop Frye
There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London. -- Craig Finn
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. -- Alistair Cooke
North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation. -- Werner Herzog
In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic. -- Will Durant
For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality. -- Gaspard Ulliel
I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person. -- Bill Ayers
I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs. -- Amber Benson
God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same. -- Iris Murdoch
Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years. -- John Cusack
We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible. -- Penelope Lively

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