Quotes About Mythology

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

For aeons past, there were many gods who descended to be humans, yet there were not many humans who ascended back to their divinity.

Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

Aphrodite makes us understand why women have drowned their babies.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

Kenneth Branagh has his stamp all over 'Thor.'

Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.

We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.

The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.

Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans

Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

The oldest written poem was by the Greek, Homer. His poem, The Iliad, tells the story of the siege of Troy, a story of the heroes who fought to the death to get Helen back to her hubby, King Menelaus.

They also thought there were spirits called 'daimons' around. Some were good and protected you; some were evil and could lead you into wickedness.

Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian: We are but mortals, and must sing of men.

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.