#myth

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences. ↗

— Teresa de Lauretis

#being #constructed #creator #culture #differences

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. ↗

— Claude Levi-Strauss

#being #claim #fact #how #i

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing? ↗

— Priya Ardis

#chick-lit #coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales

Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth? ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales #merlin

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. ↗

— Alfred Loisy

#been #god #human #human personality #ideal

There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists," and those who think they are facts are "religious." Which group really gets the message? ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#metaphors #mythology #religion #theism #art

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#dead #dead end #end #intrigued #longer

We hold this myth to be potential Not self-evident but equational Another Dimension Of another kind of Living Life ↗

— Sun Ra

#mythology #life

From the necks up... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra. ↗

— Tera Lynn Childs

#hydra #mythology #mythology

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist. ↗

— Kent McCord

#business #fade #friendships #hollywood #insist