Top Mythology Quotes

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...

Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects o...

Mythology Definition

(n.) The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.

(n.) A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks.

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.

If the students were taught about shuttle flights, plate tectonics and submarine volcanoes, they were also immersed in the traditional myths of their culture—the ancient story, for example, of how the...

Our fates are locked together. It would be foolish of me to anger God by leaving you.

People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is one of the secrets by which we shape the fulfillment of our designs. The something more assumes ampl...

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.

Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call atheists, and those...

A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a rit...

…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe th...

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.

Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after th...

I looked at Vicki. My beautiful Vicki. My dream. My love. My life.

Note to self," Joel commented. "When you go into Arious it's a 'no touchee, no zappee' situation! Paelen tapped Emily. "I suggest we try it again, just so I can see Joel's face when he gets zapped!" "...

Swords can’t solve every problem.

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...

He felt Herakles' hand move on his thigh and Geryon's head went back like a poppy in a breeze

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings of his against six old Jewish teachings. The latter are introduced by such words as 'Yo...