Quotes about Mythology

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from "Semele Recycled"But then your great voice rang out under the skiesmy name!-- and all those private namesfor the pa — Carolyn Kizer
As often as we made love I remembered what my poet told me, that this man was born of a goddess, the force that moves th — Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia
Aeneas' mother is a star?""No; a goddess."I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden — Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia
The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatib — William Harwood, Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology
That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff abo — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own — Joseph Campbell
In prehistoric times, early man was bowled over by natural events: rain, thunder, lightning, the violent shaking and mov — Signe Pike, Faery Tale: One Woman's Search for Enchantment in a Modern World
A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, — Roger Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness
There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are no — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Mythology may, in a real sense, be defined as other people's religion. And religion may, in a sense, be understood as po — Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but — Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death. — Joseph Campbell, Mythology and the Individual
Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the wo — Stephen H. Furrer
I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, rega — Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity; — Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Yet the great “Why?” always at the center of the little “whats” and “hows” that makes religions into mythologies is ofte — Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The City Of Trembling Leaves
Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting — Neel Burton, For Better For Worse: Should I Get Married?
As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light. — Leanna Renee Hieber, The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. Th — Joseph Campbell
Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. W — Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles