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A one sentence definition of mythology? "Mythology" is what we call someone else's religion


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GEORGE LUCAS We needed a mythology,
ANN DONAHUE Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mytholog...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The reigning mythology of the Northwest is obviously nature, and the reigning mythology of the North...
DAVID SHIELDS Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology,...
RICHARD HATCH One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
MADS MIKKELSEN II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
MADS MIKKELSEN Yet the great “Why?” always at the center of the little “whats” and “hows” that makes re...
WALTER VAN TILBURG CLARK A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN The Bible is a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology
MARK TWAIN Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You need music, I dont know why.It's probably one of those Joseph Campbell questions, why we need ri...
JERRY GARCIA I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives sp...
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JOHN MAXWELL I like mythology - anything historical.
CASSIE STEELE My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.
TREY PARKER In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion nece...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology,...
KAREN ARMSTRONG Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
t...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.
LAURA ANNE GILMAN 'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story o...
MICHAEL FRANTI For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and ...
THOMAS BULFINCH Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien
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WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
DEVDUTT PATTANAIK [Most writers' view of the New West is] either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or i...
WALTER KIRN It's a spooky show, with tons of archetypes and tons of mythology,
JARED PADALECKI There's this mythology about Nathan and Matthew, though they've just done one play together.
JOE MANTELLO What they teach you as history is mythology, and true mythology is far from fantasy - every kind rev...
SUZY KASSEM If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books abou...
MARY POPE OSBORNE That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
MADELINE MILLER It's been a lot of fun from script to script to get inside the mythology of 'Grimm.' We&...
SASHA ROIZ Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species...
PHILIP ROTH I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.
WES CRAVEN The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
MARTIN PARR Fact-checking can wreak havoc on Chinese political mythology.
EVAN OSNOS I ate mythology & dreamt'
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MILTON GLASER Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
BARBARA STEELE We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for my...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coh...
ALAN MOORE Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.
RICHARD KING Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it ge...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who k...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.
GEORGE LUCAS In creating The X-Files Mythology , we've discovered a whole new audience.
STEVE FELDSTEIN Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren'...
JOANNE HARRIS The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires a...
SAM HARRIS I don't believe in the UFO mythology but I find it fascinating. Episodically, I find it fascinating.
KEN MACLEOD The Search For The Giant Squid: An authoritative look at the biology and mythology of the world's mo...
RICHARD ELLIS It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pict...
LORD BYRON Successfully adding the popular characters from the Pirates of the Caribbean films with the mytholog...
JAY RASULO I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else.
TANITH LEE SATYR, n. One of the few characters of the Grecian mythology accorded recognition in the Hebrew. (Le...
AMBROSE BIERCE Successfully adding the popular characters from the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' films with the mythol...
JAY RASULO It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or ...
ASHWIN SANGHI Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a...
ROLAND BARTHES I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.
TYSON CHANDLER I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.
RICK RIORDAN Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
ALISTAIR COOKE There is no simple answer for what it means to be Canadian. There are a thousand answers that come t...
ALEXI ZENTNER I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
BILLY CHILDISH Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Normally, I would not dignify vicious, mean-spirited mythology masquerading as biography.
BARBRA STREISAND A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere...
SUSAN SONTAG I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious...
WILL SMITH Myth is what we call other people's religion.
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AML AMEEN You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I...
FERNANDO FLORES I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to ...
SANDRA CISNEROS Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.
RACHEL TRUE Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
KENNETH ANGER But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Chris...
UMBERTO ECO I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
TEA OBREHT Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they ar...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senil...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senil...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS This monkey mythology of Darwin is the cause of permissiveness, promiscuity, prophylactics, perversi...
JUDGE BRASWELL DEAN This thing has dragged on for so long that it has developed a mythology of its own. People who start...
TOM DRAKE If you have the mythology clear in your mind from the get-go, and you've laid it out and you have a ...
BRANNON BRAGA This is a very arcane (art category). You've got to know a lot about classical mythology that the co...
TOM HOVING It's part of the mythology, which is: The place didn't exist before I got here. Back home, you were ...
TIM HODSON There's a bunch of mythology out there about this. There's not much evidence to support any particul...
DAVID BERGMAN The artist eye has a mythical slant upon life; therefore, the mythological realm - the world of the ...
THOMAS MANN GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and...
AMBROSE BIERCE Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of arc...
BRYAN SYKES There’s still so much interest in the Beatles and John and still so much mythology,
BOB SPITZ Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.
C.G. JUNG Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilo...
JAMES EARL JONES He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will no...
MADELINE MILLER In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent ...
CHAIM POTOK The return and reintegration with society, which is indispensable to the continuous circulation of s...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes ...
AESCHYLUS What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our con...
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer d...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poign...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The best way to help mankind is through the perfection of yourself.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We must be willing to get rid of
the life we’ve planned, so as to have
the life that is ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Awe is what moves us forward.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to th...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him o...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
t...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL [I have no doubt that I stand here at the very center of creation. Every fir tree, each of its needl...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives sp...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. Yo...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner val...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves
JOSEPH CAMPBELL If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, w...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your ow...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

We must be willing to get rid of the l...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL