There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were… — Cary Elwes Copy Share Image
Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have . . . that you become a leader by fighting your… — William Cohen Copy Share Image
“Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot.… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
I consider myself a progressive, so my answer would be that we need to be progressive. For some reason the people in… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one… — John Medina Copy Share Image
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
“A child, left to play alone, says of quite an easy thing, 'Now I am going to to do something very difficult'.… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
My early stories revolved around reality and faith. I wrote a series of stories about the darker aspects of Christian myth: a… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“New Age spirituality purports to promote change – its mantra is ‘transformation’ – but, in reality, it endorses the status quo. It… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss… — Yukiru Sugisaki Copy Share Image
“I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the… — Alvar Ellegård Copy Share Image
Women have always been healers. Cultural myths from around the world describe a time when only women knew the secrets of life… — Jeanne Achterberg Copy Share Image
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It's the shape of the stories that matters, the way belief forms around it. The story has real weight', He pointed at… — Karen Healey Copy Share Image
“The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras,… — Hilda Scott Copy Share Image
“The universal hero myth always refers to a powerful man or god-man who vanquishes evil in the form of drag- ons, serpents,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution.… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted… — Sarah Posner 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
“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
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
“I have a very clear memory of my first encounter with myth, sitting in a mobile library and travelling, at the same… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
As Christians learn how self-styled Jews have spent millions of dollars to manufacture the 'Jewish myth' for Christian consumption and that they… — Benjamin H. Freedman Copy Share Image
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
It's a common myth that athletes and other highly active people need the protein from meat and dairy to fuel their activities… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
