Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the… — David Rosenfelt Copy Share Image
I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In the chummy corridors of the liberal media establishment, no self-satisfying myth is more prevalent than the notion that there are two… — L. Brent Bozell III Copy Share Image
In myths and movies, the mentor can play a few roles: they bring the hero a magical gift, teach them how to… — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
“For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks.… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
Old texts, myths, and religions have always fascinated me, though I prefer learning about them to writing papers and trying to make… — Tom Shields Copy Share Image
“Every culture has its version. It's universal. One of the things that is most fascinating about studying mythology is how so many… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that… — Daniel O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
“This is the time of myths, Orphan. They are the cables that run under the floors and power the world, the conduits… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god,… — Claude Vorilhon Copy Share Image
One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous… Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths… — Clint Catalyst Copy Share Image
"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about… — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly… — H. A. Guerber Copy Share Image
In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system… — Matthew Yglesias Copy Share Image
In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
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