Quotes About Mythology

Homer never wondered whether, after their many hand-to-hand struggles, Achilles or Ajax still had all their teeth.

Raised as we are on the mythology of the Old Testament, we might say that an idyll is an image that has remained with us like a memory of Paradise: life in Paradise was not like following a straight line to the unknown; it was not an adventure. It moved in a circle among known objects. Its monotony bred happiness, not boredom.

Let us suppose that such is the case, that somewhere in the world each of us has a partner who once formed part of our body. Tomas's other part is the young woman he dreamed about. The trouble is, man does not find the other part of himself. Instead, he is sent a Tereza in a bulrush basket. But what happens if he nevertheless later meets the one who was meant for him, the other part of himself? Whom is he to prefer? The woman from the bulrush basket or the woman from Plato's myth?

El amor tiende a hacer una leyenda de sí mismo y a mitificar retrospectivamente sus comienzos.

El banquete de Platón: los humanos eran antes hermafroditas y Dios los dividió en dos mitades que desde entonces vagan por el mundo y se buscan. El amor es el deseo de encontrar a la mitad perdida de nosotros mismos.

Mluvívá se o láskách na první pohled; jsem si pÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ dobÃ…â"¢e vÄ›dom toho, že láska má sklon vytváÃ…â"¢et sama ze sebe legendu a zpÄ›tnÄ› mytizovat své po?átky

La grandezza di un uomo risiede per noi nel fatto che egli porta il suo destino come Atlante portava sulle spalle la volta celeste.

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!

It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book superheroes.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)

I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body.

No mythology or religion that I know of holds all the answers. Most religions are based on truths, but they are also polluted by the philosophies and imaginations of men.

Sorry, kid. Whedon got it wrong. Stakes don't kill vampires, they just give us heartburn.

It is a pity that Earth has lost its dragons, for they added immeasurably to the strangeness of our world. This, it seemed to me, was a good thing.

That's what inquiry is for, to break through stressful mythology. These

Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female sex-object victims. Woman is the dominant sex. Woman's sexual glamour has bewitched and destroyed men since Delilah and Helen of Troy.

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

The Greek religion explained that diffuse band of light in the night sky as the milk of Hera, squirted from her breast across the heavens, a legend that is the origin of the phrase Westerners still use—the Milky Way.

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time of Homer , where there were gods of the sky and the Earth, the thunderstorm, the oceans and the underworld, fire and time and love and war; where every tree and meadow had its dryad and maenad.

So in an age when traditional religions have been under withering fire from science, is it not natural to wrap up the old gods and demons in scientific raiment and call them aliens?

Would the Gardners and the workers at the Yerkes Primate Center be remembered dimly as legendary folk heroes or gods of another species? Would there be myths, like those of Prometheus, Thoth, or Cannes, about divine beings who had given the gift of language to the apes?