M Quotes
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“Myth is the nothing that is all.”
“Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.”
“Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.”
Source: The passionate life: stages of loving
“Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.”
“Myth is what we call other people's religion.”
“Myth is, after all, the neverending story.”
“MYTH: Running is a lonely, solitary pursuit, primarily offering a sense of personal accomplishment. FACT: Running is more about health and mental well-being—a big part of which comes from connection, community, and sharing.”
Source: Run for Your Life: How to Run, Walk, and Move Without Pain or Injury and Achieve a Sense of Well-Being and Joy
“Myth: Thoughts that repeat are important. The importance or meaning of a thought has little to do with how much it repeats. Thoughts tend to repeat if they are resisted or pushed away. Any thought that you attempt to squash is more likely to keep repeating, like Don’t think about that itchy spot, or Stop noticing the piece of food in her teeth.”
Source: Overcoming Anticipatory Anxiety: A CBT Guide for Moving past Chronic Indecisiveness, Avoidance, and Catastrophic Thinking
“Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.”
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“Myth: USDollar is money. Fact: Gold & Silver are money. USDollar is legal tender/debt brought down to low parcels for spending purposes.”
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“Myth: Vampires eat only raw meat or drink blood.
Truth: Why would we do that when there's chocolate in the world?”
“Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked back to the origins of life, to the foundations of culture, and to the deepest levels of the human mind. Myth was not concerned with practical matters, but with meaning. Unless we find some significance in our lives, we mortal men and women fall very easily into despair. The mythos of a society provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal.”
Source: The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism
“Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.”
Source: Powers of the weak
“Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.”
“Mythic imagination can break the spell of time and open us to a level of life that remains timeless. Myth is not about what happened in past times; myth is about what happens to people all of the time.”
Source: The Genius Myth
“Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.”
“Mythographer was suggested by the man who made my website, actually. I do write a lot about myth and I do feel it's a bit pompous to state it that way, but it does distinguish me from other writers. When it was first on the web, people began to use it in an ironical and satirical way. Now, however, people tend to use it straight.”
“Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.”
“Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls.”
Source: The Sea of Monsters
“Mythologically speaking, if there's anything I hate worse than trios of old ladies, it's bulls. Last summer, I fought the Minotaur on top of Half-Blood Hill. This time what I saw up there was even worse: two bulls. And not just regular bulls - bronze ones the size of elephants. And even that wasn't bad enough. Naturally they had to breathe fire, too.”
Source: Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters
“Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.”
“Mythologies have nothing to do with holiness, nor with the actual creator of the cosmos, even if there is such a thing, at most they reflect the mindset and morality of their time.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Mythologies were the earliest dreams of mankind, and in the psychotic delusions of his patients, Jung believed he was encountering those dreams again. Freud, too, believed that the psyche retained archaic vestiges, remnants of our earlier mental world. But for Freud these were a burden we were forced to repress. Jung instead would see them as a reservoir of vital energy, a source of meaning and power from which, through the over-development of our rational minds, modern mankind has become divorced.”
“Mythologist Joseph Campbell once spent 5 years living in a shack in rural New York where he read 9 hours a day. I did something similar as I was in middle school but I suspect Campbell read much better books. Most of my books were acquired at the flea market in Chiefland, FL where a hoarse voiced lady sold musty paperbacks 5 for $1.”
Source: Some Books Are Not For Sale
“Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed with fragments of factual reality.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.”
Source: A Short History Of Myth
“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you trace them back to their origin, often have a sacredness, a holy quality that comes from the bedrock of lore from which they emerged.”
Source: Not Since Mark Twain - Stories: Newly Revised
“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.”
“Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.”
“Mythology combined with blind faith results in mass hysteria.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“Mythology didn't cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology.”
Source: Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
“Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.”
“Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.”
“Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe.”
“Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.”
“Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.”
“Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?”
“Mythology is all shite anyway,' she says. 'It never has stories about people like us. I'd rather write my own legends, or be the story someone else looks to one day, build a strong foundation for those who follow us.”
Source: The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
“Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience.”
“Mythology is Fan Fiction - for the Gods.”
“Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.”
“Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.”
Source: Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology
“Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.”
Source: Moon Tiger
“Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.”
Source: The Power of Myth
“Mythology is not invented rationally; mythology cannot be rationally understood.”
Source: The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
“Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed
“Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.”
Source: Up the Down Staircase
“Mythology is the foundation of religious belief.”
Source: The Gods of Genesis
“Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.”
“Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. . . . Myth has two main functions. The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children ask, such as: 'Who made the world? How will it end? Who was the first man? Where do souls go after death?'. . . . The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs.”