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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 9 likes |
 | In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 7 likes |
 | Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 6 likes |
 | What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 4 likes |
 | Ancient Greek mythology is the western of the Renaissance. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 3 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 3 likes |
 | Myth is the nothing that is everything. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 2 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 2 likes |
 | The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier, 1924-2016, French writer 2 likes |
 | The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality. |
 | An entire mythology is stored within our language. |
 | When gossip grows old it becomes myth. |
 | National literature begins with fables and ends with novels. |
| Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation. |
| 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. |
| Religion is misunderstood mythology. |
| The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact. |
| Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. |
| Heresy is the life of a mythology, and orthodoxy is the death. |
 | 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. |
 | Conscience is better served by a myth. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | Myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end. |
 | 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. |
 | Myth is ancient science; science is modern myth. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos. |
Funny Quotes
 | Bacchus, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 3 likes |
