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Mythology |
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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. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 10 likes |
 | In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 8 likes |
 | Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 7 likes |
 | What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 5 likes |
 | Ancient Greek mythology is the western of the Renaissance. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 4 likes |
 | Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 4 likes |
 | Myth is the nothing that is everything. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 3 likes |
 | Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical. — Friedrich von Schlegel, 1772-1829, German writer 3 likes |
 | The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier, 1924-2016, French writer 3 likes |
| Religion is misunderstood mythology. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 2 likes |
 | Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them. — Gustave Le Bon, 1841-1931, French polymath & writer 2 likes |
 | The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
 | An entire mythology is stored within our language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 1 likes |
 | When gossip grows old it becomes myth. — Bill Vaughan, 1915-1977, American journalist 1 likes |
 | National literature begins with fables and ends with novels. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 1 likes |
| Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 1 likes |
| I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 1 likes |
| The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 1 likes |
| Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 1 likes |
| Heresy is the life of a mythology, and orthodoxy is the death. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 1 likes |
 | In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child’s soul with poetry every day. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 1 likes |
 | Conscience is better served by a myth. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist 1 likes |
 | Myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end. — Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer 1 likes |
 | The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 1 likes |
 | Myth is ancient science; science is modern myth. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist 1 likes |
 | That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos. — Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer 1 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Bacchus, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 4 likes |
