Top Mythology Quotes
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.
Rudolf Otto
Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
Barbara Steele
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
Richard King
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Martin Scorsese 
Robert Redford 
Thomas Bulfinch 
James Earl Jones 
Clyde Tombaugh 
Tennessee Williams All Mythology Quotes
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 
59% of people like this quote
Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.
Rudolf Otto
58% of people like this quote
Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
Barbara Steele
58% of people like this quote
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.
Richard King
56% of people like this quote
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin
56% of people like this quote
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
Alfred Loisy
56% of people like this quote
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
Robert Redford
54% of people like this quote
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
Roland Barthes
54% of people like this quote
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
Umberto Eco
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We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.
Penelope Lively
52% of people like this quote
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