789 Quotes About Mythology

All explanations are myths whose truth-value we assign subjectively. They are true only insofar as we say that they are true. They are stories we conjure up and tell ourselves in order to make sense of the disconnected, context-free phantasmagoria of present perception.

Past and future are myths: stories in the mind.

The present is an intangible moment squeezed in between a growing past and an approaching future. Therefore, perceptual truths are, at best, an inconceivably fleeting part of the experience of life. The bulk of life consists of internal myths.

Out of the quasi-nothingness of the now somehow comes everything.

The very foundations of truth are inherently subjective.

Cut off one head, two more shall take its place.

Time and the Gods are at strife; ye dwell in the midst thereof,Draining a little life from the barren breasts of love.

Mama used to say that in the beginning, white hair was a sign of the powers of heaven and earth. It held beauty and virtue and love, it meant we were blessed by the gods above.

Your mythology can and will change as you grow older and you learn more about life and the spiritual worlds. You are free to abrogate as many verses of your gospel as you wish, and even to be your own heretic.