Myth Quotes · Page 16

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

— Michael Shermer

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

— Denis MacShane

There is a myth that is being perpetuated that I am afraid of snakes. And I am not afraid of snakes!

— Nikita Dutta

We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

— Douglas Rushkoff

“The surface world may be as much a myth to the subterraneans as the underworld is to us.”

— Priscilla Vogelbacher

“Sometimes the only difference between myth and truth is the spelling.”

— John Pirillo

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

— Charles Rangel

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

— Colin Farrell

I think the older you get, you start to break down the myth and you get to the dirt of it -…

— Jena Malone

This generation, and many others, have been led to believe that the devil is a myth, a figure, an idea, the idea…

— Pope Francis

The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a…

— Clinton Rossiter

The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not…

— Janine di Giovanni

You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic,…

— Jerry Garcia

To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth,…

— Theodore Zeldin

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world.…

— A. D. Coleman

The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the…

— Richard Hofstadter

“In myths, the hero survives. The evil is vanquished. The world is set right. Sometimes there are celebrations, and sometimes there are…

— V.E. Schwab

I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth…

— Marlon Brando

“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful…

— Karen Armstrong

I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and…

— Marina Warner

Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by…

— Andrei Sakharov

“If I say I do not believe in faeries or elves or trolls, does this imply that I have a set of…

— Kelli Jae Baeli

Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware…

— Ray Brassier

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

— Caryl Rivers

“Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.”

— Peter Burke

I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

— Alan Watts

“Someone said, 'It's all been done before.' Yes, I agreed, but we all have to say it in our own voice.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

— Jessica Lange

People think that if you are young, you don't know what is best for you. That's a myth.

— Declan McKenna

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

— Tracy Keenan Wynn

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

“Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Let’s train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind.”

— Allan Wesler

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

— Hershel Shanks

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.”

— Anonymous

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

— Andrew O'Hagan

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

— Aristotle

“what was myth in one world might always be fact in some other.”

— C.S. Lewis