Mythology Quotes - Page 5

• The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

  Cyprian

  Fire, Body, Hell

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• I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Eye, Fool

  "A Coat" l. 8 (1914)

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• In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

  William Robertson Smith

  Religious, People, Religion

  William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.17, Transaction Publishers

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• Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Science, Fit, Ancient

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• Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government in violation of the Smith Act and which took orders directly from Moscow.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Party, Government, Order

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• I loved all the world's mythologies.

  Lloyd Alexander

  World

  Lloyd Alexander (2006). “Taran Wanderer”, p.221, Macmillan

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• 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

  Writing, Space, Childhood

  "Rosetta mission: Philae craft may have bounced during comet landing - as it happened" by Stuart Clark, James Kingsland, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2014.

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• I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America. Neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in Mythology than in any history of America so called that I have seen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Names, America

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Excursions, and Poems - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.132, Read Books Ltd

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• Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

  Joseph Campbell

  Religion, Mystery, Metaphorical

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• God will not pity them, but “laugh at their calamity.” The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's righteous judgment, and sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.

  Thomas Boston

  Laughing, Heaven, Execution

  "Human Nature in Its Fourfold State: Of Primitive Integrity, Entire Depravity, Begun Recovery, and Consummate Happiness Or Misery".

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• Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

  Seth Godin

  Understanding, Important, Instant Replay

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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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• Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.

  Amber Benson

  Kids, Stories, Obsessed

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• I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...

  Anne Rice

  Hands, Literature, Fascinated

  Penguin Random House Interview, www.randomhouse.com.

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• I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Real, Simple, Actors

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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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• One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

  Clive Barker

  Book, Thinking, Trying

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• It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them; when...God shall mock them instead of relieving them; when none in heaven or earth can help them but God, and he shall rejoice over them in their calamity

  Richard Baxter

  Lying, Flames, Laughing

  Richard Baxter (1847). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter; with a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works; an Essay on His Genius, Works, and Times ...”

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• Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology.

  Joseph Campbell

  Misinterpreted, Defined

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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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• 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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• 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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• Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a

  Joseph Campbell

  Ubiquity, Events

  Joseph Campbell (1972). “Myths to live by”, Viking Pr

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• When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."

  Martin Luther

  Blessed, Answers, Hell

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• ...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.

  Gerhard

  Blessed, Compassion, Hell

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