789 Quotes About Mythology

Truth to tell, what is invested in the concept is less reality than a certain knowledge of reality; in passing from the meaning to the form, the image loses some knowledge: the better to receive the knowledge in the concept. In actual fact, the knowledge contained in a mythical concept is confused, made of yielding, shapeless associations.

Desire and fear: these are the two emotions by which all life in the world is governed.

The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life but as an aspect of life.

We must constantly die one way or another to the selfhood already achieved.

The passage to fulfillment lies between the perils of desire and fear.

The best advice is to take it all as if it had been your intention - with that, you evoke the participation of your will.

Any life career that you choose in following your bliss should be chosen with that sense - that nobody can frighten me off from this thing. And no matter what happens, this is the validation of my life and action.

The end of the world is not an event to come, it is an event of psychological transformation, of visionary transformation. You see not the world of solid things but a world of radiance.

A religious myth can bring transcendence into everyday life in an abiding manner. It can infuse ordinary aspects of life with enchantment and timeless significance, thereby saving the human animal from existential despair.