The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.
Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is. . . The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves.
I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore, I find that stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.
The drug which makes sexuality palatable in popular mythology.
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist
One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It is not something projected from the brain, but something experienced from the heart, from recognition of identities behind or within the appearances of nature, perceiving with love a 'thou' where there would otherwise have been only an 'it. '
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples.
I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!
The mythology in rock n' roll is that I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Yet I've produced more music than anybody in my generation. So how much of a loose cannon am I? But the general public believes that I'm a loose cannon, so let them believe it. I'm not going to correct them.
There's something about Celtic mythology which is deep in the soul, and I just think that somehow she has tapped right into it.
With this particular series [The Cursed Wheel] I'm going farther in that direction than I've tried before in terms of the elasticity of the mythology.
I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods - none of that is made up.
Mythology needs heroes and it needs villains, it needs heroes to fail, it needs heroes to struggle.
Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.
In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary. . . . We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, "memoirs to serve for a history," which is but materials to serve for a mythology.
We can now say with considerable confidence that the Bible is not a history of anyone's past. . . . The Bible's "Israel" is a literary fiction. . . Not only have Adam and Eve and the flood story passed over to mythology, but we can no longer talk about a time of the patriarchs. There never was a "United Monarchy" in history and it is meaningless to speak of pre-exilic prophets and their writings. . . The Bible deals with the origin traditions of a people who never existed as such
Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.