“If women allow themselves to be consoled for their culturally determined lack of access to the modes of intellectual debate by the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
“Myth basically serves four functions. The first is the mystical function,... realizing what a wonder the universe is, and what a wonder… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is no sex without a cue. People who date have their cues at home, before they meet. You think about where… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“As you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that your journey be a long one, filled with adventure, filled with… — Barry B. Powell Copy Share Image
“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
I actually met a producer of Stanley Kubrick's who told me that Kubrick had never even thought about doing Perfume: The Story… — Tom Tykwer Copy Share Image
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you.… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
But the myth of power is, of course, a very powerful myth, and probably most people in this world more or less… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales, fantasy, legend and myth...these stories, and their topics, and the symbolism and interpretation of those topics...these things have always held… — Helen Pilinovsky Copy Share Image
