Myth Quotes

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This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.

Truth Harry Potter Myth Christian

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific d

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

Science Existentialism Myth

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogethe

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

Truth Beauty Myth Animal

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating tru

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

Terry Tempest Williams

Truth Translation Myth

Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in

Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . .

Inspirational Fantasy Myth Folktales Old Tales Power Of Story

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has

I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no real conflict between science and religion ... What is in conflict is the science of 2000 BC ... and the science of the 20th century AD.

Joseph Campbell

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I ate mythology

I ate mythology

Yusef Komunyakaa

Dream Myth Mythology Blackberries

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized drea

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind

Joseph Campbell

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of cre

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. Th

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

Christianity Myth

The where the story happened was a world on the back of four

The where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically , and so, eventually, it does.People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood. It believes mere size is .There's nothing amazing about size. Turtles are amazing, and elephants are quite astonishing. But the fact that there's a big turtle is far less amazing than the fact that there is a turtle .

Terry Pratchett

Humor Funny Wonder Myth Creation Myth

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reali

The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of myth being that it should have no taint of allegory to the maker and yet should incipient allegories to the reader.[C.S. Lewis writes to J.R.R. Tolkien on December 7, 1929]

Myth Allegory Lord Of The Rings

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching

What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the loss of myth, of a mythic home, the mythic womb?

Friedrich Nietzsche