Mythology quotes

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◆ I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

- John Lennon100

◆ Death is the only god who comes when you call.

- Roger Zelazny100

◆ If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

- Ursula K Le Guin99

◆ Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

- James Earl Jones99

◆ Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

- Kenneth Anger99

◆ You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

- Fernando Flores99

◆ Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

- Roland Barthes99

◆ The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology, and art even to be entertained.

- Sam Harris99

◆ He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

- Madeline Miller99

◆ Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!

- Rick Riordan99

◆ He's so powerful. Who knows maybe he's advanced past eating

- Priya Ardis99

◆ Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — the age of science — science fiction is our mythology.

- Michael Shermer99

◆ The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame.

- Kohta Hirano99

◆ What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.

- Joseph Campbell99

◆ When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

- Joseph Campbell99