“Yet Hardenberg was kept on in secret government service by King Frederick William and his fiercely anti-Napoleonic wife, the beautiful and independent-minded Queen Louise, daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburg, not least in order to keep diplomatic channels open to Russia.”
Source: Napoleon
“Mythology is not invented rationally; mythology cannot be rationally understood.”
Source: The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
“If a person does not receive the proper nutrition, that individual's body will not grow to its maximal height. Similarly, if one's mind does not receive an educational or informationally-rich diet, so to speak, their mind will not grow to its maximal capacity either.”
Source: The Examined Life: A Journal of Questions and Quotes
“The Neanderthal graves and bear sanctuaries, our earliest certain evidences of religious ritual, point to an attempt to cope with the imprint of death.”
Source: The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
“For the human mind in its polarity of the male and female modes of experience, in its passages from infancy to adulthood and old age, in its toughness and tenderness, and in its continuing dialogue with the world, is the ultimate mythogenetic zone -the creator and destroyer, the slave and yet the master, of all the gods.”
Source: The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
“...we are united to those immortal images of initiatory might, through the sacramental operation of which, man, since the beginning of his day on earth, has dispelled the terrors of his phenomenality and won through to the all-transfiguring vision of immortal being.”
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
“The crux of the curious difficulty lies in the fact that our conscious views of what life ought to be seldom correspond to what life really is.”
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
“Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know.”
Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
“You don't need a great mind to build a great company.”
“Ljudski um krajnje je neobično mjesto, dom i izgnanstvo u isti mah. Kako može pamtiti nešto tako neuhvatljivo i neopipljivo kao što je miris, a sposoban je izbrisati konkretne dijelove prošlosti, gromadu po gromadu?”
Source: The Island of Missing Trees