Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential… — Satyananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most… — John Howe Copy Share Image
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think it's a bit of a myth that black Americans need one leader. We're not a monolith. And now that legal… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication… — Ennio Flaiano Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“There are plenty of atheists in foxholes. What I don't see are Christians in foxholes. If a Christian soldier takes a bullet… — Sam Singleton Copy Share Image
One problem that I kept in mind was that in avoiding the BODY BEAUTIFUL as exhibited in the pseudo-lesbians of David Hamilton… — Tee Corinne Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“On the nights I stuffed myself full of myths, I dreamed of college, of being pumped full of all the old knowledge… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“In the New Testament, "myth stands over against the truth (aletheia) of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
“Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps… — Thea Euryphaessa Copy Share Image
“Myth: Vampires have huge stockpiles of gold and treasure. Truth: If that were true, I'd be able to get my dad to… — Kimberly Pauley Copy Share Image
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results —… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“If ‘myth’ is a slippery term, so is ‘classical’. It is common shorthand for ‘ancient Greek and Roman’. But this shorthand has… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe.… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle.… — Deborah Meier Copy Share Image
One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Christian Grey - he isn't a real person. He's a superhero. A myth. He's like Bigfoot! He's unbelievable. He's unattainable. There's no… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image