Mythology quotes
63 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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"
"An entire mythology is stored within our language."
"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."
"We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology."
"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
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"I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality."
"Religon is misunderstood mythology"
"Mythology is often defined as 'other peoples' religions', religion can be thought of as misinterpreted mythology."
"Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless."
"Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology."
"He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men."
"A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion."
"Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves."
"I loved all the world's mythologies."
