#mythology

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #philosophy #spirituality #art

I believe in prophetic speech . . . still. I believe in Cassandra, I believe in Electra and in the charming Antigone. . . . For me, they’re more alive than the [Institute for] Intellectual Cooperation and its choice group of old men. ↗

— Gabriella Mistral

#intellectual #men

Alte Männer sind eine rachsüchtige Brut. Sie beneiden junge Männer um ihre Kraft und verübeln jungen Frauen ihre Verführungsmacht. ↗

— Emilia Polo

#götter #men #myth #mythology #mythos

It is better to live on the sea and let other men raise your crops and cook your meals. A house smells of smoke, a ship smells of frolic. From a house you see a sooty roof, from a ship you see Valhalla. ↗

— Harald Halfdanson Viking Tales

#norse-mythology #vikings #men

And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who? ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#forgetting #memory #mythology #death

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#modern #modern technology #myth #mythology #science

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#based #culture #even #every #geographical

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. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#beings #both #enabling #extend #human

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #heroic-fantasy

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#called #claim #deserves #enlarge #helps