Myth Quotes · Page 24

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

— Starhawk

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

— Jacques Ellul

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

— Oliver Harris

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

— Diane Guerrero

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

— Todd Gitlin

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

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

— Diana Trilling

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth,…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same…

— Joseph Campbell

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with…

— Diane Wakoski

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in…

— Suzanne Farrell

In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ...…

— G. C. Berkouwer

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at…

— Mark Rothko

Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves…

— Jan Karon

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

— Robert Coover

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and…

— Steven Spielberg

A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something…

— Heinz Pagels

The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to…

— Paulo Freire

“First we must learn to think mythologically. Powerful things happen when we touch the thinking which myths, fairy tales, and our own…

— Robert A. Johnson

That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers.…

— Lillian B. Rubin

What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was…

— Victor Serge

Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do…

— Jill Alexander Essbaum

If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.

— Elizabeth Lesser

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

— Greil Marcus

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

— Gilbert Ryle

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

— Sandra Cisneros

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

— Jessica Fortunato

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

— Stacy Schiff

Obviously I have propagated the occasional myth about myself, because the real me, I'm not worth knowing.

— Keith Allen

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

— Anais Nin

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

— Joseph Campbell

“Myths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks.”

— S.M. Stirling

I think the myth about the 'silent generation' is just that, a myth.

— David Dellinger

I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one.

— Juan Pablo Escobar

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

— Libby Larsen

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

— Joseph Campbell

There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.

— Shel Silverstein

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

— Clarence Thomas