Quotes About Mythology

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is that vampires are allergic to bull shit.

Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.

With very rare exceptions, textbook after textbook adopts the same mythology. If middle and high school students are being taught a false history, is it any wonder that they come to believe that African Americans are segregated only because they don't want to marry or because they prefer to live only among themselves? Is it any wonder that they grow up inclined to think that programs to ameliorate ghetto conditions are simply undeserved handouts?

Although scientific method is different from mythology -- its assertions are conditional, self-limited, and subject to disproof —- "science" as a concept may be used in an ideological and a mythological way, evasive of questions and disproofs.

Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?" Well, there are only four horsemen.

Oh God," I said. "I'm Zmey's daughter. Zmey junior. Zmeyette, even.

A witch is always a woman. I do not wish to speak badly about women. Most women are lovely. But the fact remains that all witches are women. There is no such thing as a male witch. (My own thoughts: I love women and I love witches)

We broke Batman's back. We killed Superman.

The junior hoodlums who roamed their streets were symptoms of a greater sickness; their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights' . . . and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure.

But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

And that was the soft spot which destroyed what was in many ways an admirable culture. The junior hoodlums who roamed their streets were symptoms of a greater sickness; their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights' . . . and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure.

their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights' . . . and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure.

But when Aphrodite is confronting her daughter-in-law she is jealous, competitive and determined to set out hurdles for Psyche at every turn.

Aphrodite often shows her tyrannical side and thinks her word is law.

Much of the turmoil for a modern woman is the collision between her Aphrodite nature and her Psyche nature.

mythology describes the hero's battle with his internal self as the encounter with the dragon, and modern man has no fewer dragon battles than did his medieval counterpart

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

I don't know who first said, Science fiction is the mythology of our time. An increasing number of occultists are realizing this and are incorporating science fiction into their rituals.

It is possible, and even probable, that nymphs and satyrs and such are only gods who have been apprehended without love-partially, obscurely, distortedly.

smiled at me again, a smile perfectly capable of launching a thousand ships and very likely to burn the topless towers of Ilium. We

This is not just storytelling. It is the sharing of personal mythology. It's how we all make sense out of our lives and give its events significance. It parallels the mythmaking of the human race. It is the ritual of remembrance.