Quotes about Mythology

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Historian, Novelist

Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.
Economy - Eternity - Growing - Mythology - Nonsense - Progression - Stability
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Joseph Campbell

Public Servant, Author, Writer

There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.
Help - Imagination - Mythology - Perception - Relationship - Selecting - Society - Unconscious
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Joseph Campbell

Public Servant, Author, Writer

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.
Art - Inspiration - Kindness - Mythology - People
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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.
Discovery - Embarrassment - Facts - Impulse - Kindness - Leadership - Modern - Mythology - Opportunity - Opposition - Respect - Sameness - Science - Time - Universe - Wishing
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Joseph Campbell

Public Servant, Author, Writer

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.
Mythology
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Alan Watts

Philosopher

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.
Activity - Alien - Confrontation - Culture - Feelings - Intelligence - Mythology - Teaching - Universe - World
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Konrad Lorenz

Statesman, Scientist, Zoologist

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.
Animals - Excitement - Mythology
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Bruce Lee

Martial Artist, Philosopher, Actor, Director,

There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?
Ability - Man - Mythology - Selecting
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Salman Rushdie

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
Art - Celebration - Mythology - Permission - Songs
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George Orwell

Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Belief - Mythology - Tendency
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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.
Creativity - Health - Loss - Mythology
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Hermann Hesse

Poet, Novelist, Painter

In the beginning was the myth.
Mythology
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Michel Foucault

Writer, Historian, Philosopher

There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.
Crying - Economy - Exercise - History - Human - Individual - Liberty - Mythology - People - Philosophy
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John Steinbeck

Writer, War Correspondent

There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high colored magical confusion takes permanent hold...Surely Texas is such a place.
Kindness - Mythology - Permanence
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Stephen King

Writer

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.
Creativity - Mindset - Mythology
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Rumi

Actress, Poet, Poet

I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover
Love - Mythology
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Joseph Campbell

Public Servant, Author, Writer

Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers-prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole.
Achievement - Adventure - Children - Extraordinary - Heroism - Mastering - Meaning - Mythology - Oppression - Triumph - Whole - World
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Alice Walker

Novelist, Poet, Activist

We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.
Heavens - Mythology
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George Orwell

Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Mythology - Politics
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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.
Lie - Mythology
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