Myth Quotes · Page 23

“Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.”

— Joseph Campbell

“The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.”

— Jessica Fortunato

I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce…

— Sandra Cisneros

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

— Oliver Harris

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

— Todd Gitlin

It is a huge myth that our voices don't matter, that our vote doesn't count.

— Diane Guerrero

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“Your money myth affects your gain and luck. In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.”

— Toba Beta

Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring…

— Paul Krugman

What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to…

— Jeanette Winterson

There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women…

— Rufus Wainwright

Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from…

— Joseph Campbell

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that…

— John Mason Brown

One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that…

— Jay Carr

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had…

— Christopher Dawson

Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming…

— A. N. Wilson

“Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous…

— Terri Windling

I do believe in the myth of San Francisco and there is a force, a magical kind of thing there. That feeling…

— Ty Segall

People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And…

— Karen Armstrong

I think there's always been a myth that sailors brought in records in their knapsacks as if you could ... in the…

— Derek Taylor

A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a…

— Jack F. Matlock, Jr

Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding…

— Louis Agassiz

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate…

— Joseph Campbell

If somebody harbours delusions, I think that should disqualify them from office, regardless whether the delusions are religious. Letting someone who thinks…

— John F. Kennedy

I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

— Tom Hiddleston

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

— Jacques Ellul

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

— Starhawk

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

— David Christian

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

— Tori Amos

“Myth: A stake through the heart will kill a vampire. Truth: Well, duh. It would kill anyone.”

— Kimberly Pauley

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

— Robert Heller

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

— Diane Keaton

First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.

— Jeaniene Frost

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.

— John Maynard Smith

“Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.”

— Ernst Jünger

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

— Devdutt Pattanaik

It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

— Sinclair Lewis

Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.

— Fred Kaplan

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and…

— Natalie Babbitt