"Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors."

-- Joseph Campbell

#Narrative Quotes #Metaphor Quotes #Myth Quotes

“A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.”
“If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!”
“[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial bodies to FIRE or to WATER; and ... their followers have of late been distinguished by the fanciful names of Vulcanists and Neptunists. To the former of these Dr HUTTON belongs much more than to the latter; though, as he employs the agency both of fire and water in his system, he cannot, in strict propriety, be arranged with either.”
“Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?”
“I can't sit on grass without a blanket.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.”
“The God who has the whole world in his hands has grace for the whole world in his heart.”
“A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.”

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