#mythology

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had. ↗

— Eric Bana

#greek mythology #had #i #i wish #mythology

I'm such a geek, I know all about mythology and I don't know Marc Jacobs. ↗

— Amber Benson

#geek #i #jacobs #know #marc

You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks. ↗

— Fernando Flores

#big #europeans #everyone #favor #i

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

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

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#cannot #elegant #knowledge #language #literature

Can Christian preaching expect modern man to accept the mythical view of the world as true? To do so would be both senseless and impossible. It would be senseless, because there is nothing specifically Christian in the mythical view of the world as such. It is simply the cosmology of a pre-scientific age. ↗

— Rudolf Karl Bultmann

#cosmology #mythology #age

Hera said that Hephaestus was the one who made the lovely chariots for Zeus, Poseidon & Hades. Also the one for Helios, the Sun God. And if she married him, he might make one for her too. But she did not tell the young Goddess of Love why none of the Goddesses wanted to marry him in the first instance & that he was ugly & a cripple. She also omitted to tell her that Hephaestus, having created the first woman, Pandora, from clay, had neither the patience nor the inclination to woo & pamper women, let alone put up with the changing moods of the young lovely Goddesses at Olympus. And that even the warlike & down-to-earth Athena had dropped him like a ton of bricks. As Aphrodite did not appear to have any choices, she nodded her head & thus accepted Hera as her future mother-in-law. And this explains one of the greatest mysteries in Greek Mythology: why the loveliest & most beautiful of the Goddesses would agree to marry the ugliest of the Gods. For this mismatch would not have happened if not for Hera. ↗

— Nicholas Chong

#beauty

Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#greek #humor #mythology #percy-jackson #sorry

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #philosophy #spirituality #art