419 Quotes About Myth

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity. Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being, no matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . .and at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences...

Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century.

In those timeless years between infancy and, say, seven what is has always been: in that way children inhabit the realm of myth.

[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.

As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued, collagelike, to the once unified experience of life.

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

I have a great interest in classical mythology and I need to make a sphinx or satyr every once in awhile to satisfy those interests. (...)

Something that harms you cannot benefit you...Cigarette , Alcohol , Tobacco etc