Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.
I'm very at home working with mythology.
. . ,No love cannot leave where there is no trust. . ,~cupid and psyche. . ,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
Ideology. . . is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.
The mythology of the Reagan presidency is that he induced the collapse of the Soviet Union by luring it into unsustainable military spending and wars: should there come a point when we think about applying that lesson to ourselves?
This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.
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.
Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.
Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.
It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.
A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
I just always loved mythology, ever since I was a kid. Greek mythology was something I remember learning about in fourth grade, and Egypt, too, and something about both those things just clicked with me. I just thought they both were so beautiful and interesting to learn about.
Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.
It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up to me and say that 'Far from Heaven' was exactly what it was like back then. [laughs] I was so disinterested in what it was 'really like' in the 1950s when I was putting the film together, I was only interested in what it was like in movies.
I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.
Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.