Mythology Quotes - Page 18

• 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

  Horse, Moving, Thinking

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• When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.

  Glenn Quinn

  Fun, Ghouls, Avid

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• I like mythology - anything historical.

  Cassie Steele

  Historical

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• In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Children, Love Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.111, Courier Corporation

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• Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.

  Max Muller

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.33, Book Tree

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• I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an exciting, fast-paced way - enough that there's a really clear, aggressive direction to where it's going, to pay off mystery and reward the audiences loyalty.

  Eric Kripke

  Loyalty, Rewards, Way

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

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• Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

  Penelope Lively

  Messages, Stuff, Logic

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• Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly paradise, once possessed by man, but now lost, and only to be attained again by the virtuous.

  H. A. Guerber

  Men, Race, Land

  H. A. Guerber (1910). “Myths & Legends of the Middle Ages”

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• In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

  Will Durant

  Philosophy, People, Youth

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well:
  larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast
  of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!

  Anne Sexton

  Ocean, Thinking, Wings

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Truth, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.42, Xist Publishing

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• In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Writing, Poetry, Today

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness and eternal vigor. It's only in our lifetime that running has become associated with fear and pain.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Pain, Motivation

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• The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but are systematically encouraged not to think independently or critically, and instead to accept the mythology of the United States as a benevolent, misunderstood giant as it lumbers around the world trying to do good.

  Robert Jensen

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Stars, Real, Taken

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• 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

  Lying, Challenges, World

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• The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.

  Freya Stark

  Impact, Order, Two

  freya stark (1969). “the zodiac arch”

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• the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the more a body will wind up adding to the mythology.

  Molly Ivins

  Texas, Wind, Trying

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.3, Vintage

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• Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Heartless

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• 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

  Simple, Imagination, Kangaroos

  "Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge". Book by William Poundstone, 1988.

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• I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I got an idea which I thought was kind of neat for working in a mythological angle. I'm really struggling with myself. It would probably be a better book if I include it, but on the other hand I don't always like to keep reverting to it. I think what I'm going to do is vary my output, do some straight science fiction and some straight fantasy that doesn't involve mythology, and composites.

  Roger Zelazny

  Struggle, Book, Thinking

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• Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. ... These gods dwell in their mythocracies as opposed to your theocracies, democracies, and monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality.

  Sun Ra

  Space, Magic, Democracy

  "Sun Ra: Stranger from Outer Space" by Mike Walsh, missioncreep.com.

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• All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

  Anne Carson

  Mean, Two, Patterns

  Anne Carson (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.31, Vintage

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• Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

  Bel Kaufman

  School, School System

  Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.182, Open Road Media

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