Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Life coming out of a death, he'd told her, is the most potent myth of all.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics... — Loren Mosher Copy Share Image
“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap. — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures.… — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!"… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by… — David Watson Copy Share Image
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Rid yourself of the old myth, if it has been plaguing you, that money is not important. It is important - vitally… — Venita VanCaspel Copy Share Image
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
“Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Music does propagate myths and people have tried to make that myth more than it was.” — Deborah Curtis Copy Share Image
“Any one can be a leader is often a passing myth, not always a lasting truth.” — Neena Verma Copy Share Image
Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
