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• We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming a man, to help man. Whoever heard of Jupiter or Mars or Minerva coming down and attempting to bear the burdens of men? The gods were willing enough to receive the gifts of men, but Christianity is unique in the fact that our God became a man with human infirmity and emptied Himself of the glory of heaven, in order that He might take upon Himself the sins, diseases and weakness of our humanity.

  A. C. Dixon

  Men, Unique, Order

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• Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Hero, Sleep, Race

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• Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

  Anish Kapoor

  Art, Creative, Architecture

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• It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.

  William P. Young

  Religious, Expectations, Understanding

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• It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund.

  Adolf Hitler

  Would Be, Worship, Christianity

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Table talk, 1941-1944”

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• In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, "memoirs to serve for a history," which is but materials to serve for a mythology.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hands, History, Greek

  Henry David Thoreau (1975). “Early Essays and Miscellanies”, p.60, Princeton University Press

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• I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

  George Lucas

  Kids, Film, Wanted

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• When I was growing up in the mid-'50s, the Roaring Twenties were a huge part of the culture. There were a number of films and a bunch of television shows that dealt with the mythology of the underworld from that period.

  Martin Scorsese

  Growing Up, Numbers, Twenties

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Expression, Common Humanity

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

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• A great brand is a story that’s never completely told. A brand is a metaphorical story that connects with something very deep – a fundamental appreciation of mythology. Stories create the emotional context people need to locate themselves in a larger experience.

  Scott Bedbury

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Business

  "If the name fits ....", www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2001.

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• Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.

  Joseph Campbell

  Buddhist, Lying, Mind

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

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• Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

  James Hillman

  Psychology, Soul, Stories

  James Hillman (1972). “The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology”, p.16, Northwestern University Press

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• Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity.

  Joseph Campbell

  Lying, Energy, Pouring

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• Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Mean, Brave

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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

  Allies, Literature, Virtue

  Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

  Hermann Hesse

  Lying, Psychology, Interpretation

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.56, Macmillan

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• Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Spiritual, Clue

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.5, Anchor

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• If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Children, World, Want

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• The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

  Bernard Malamud

  Baseball, Quality, Whole

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• If you want to change the world, change yourself.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Change, World, Want

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• If you want to change the world, be that change.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Volunteer, World, Want

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• If you want to change the world, make something beautiful.

  Charlie Peacock

  Beautiful, World, Want

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• Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

  Ansel Adams

  Struggle, World, Heroic

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• 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

  Home, Past, Common Sense

  Roger Lowenstein, (2010). “Buffett”, p.372, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

  Joseph Campbell

  Understanding, Mind, Power Of Myth

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.68, Anchor

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