Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil. — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance. — Arjuna Ardagh Copy Share Image
If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The things that are myths. Vampires dont have fangs, dont need them. They can go out in the day but just dont… — Jade Copy Share Image
It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have... To me, they're the same as the… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Anyone who takes opioids on a regular basis will become dependent upon them, meaning they will have to taper off gradually to… — Karen Lee Richards Copy Share Image
“Any large-scale human cooperation - whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe - is rooted… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It is possible to communicate beautifully or boringly, in every language on Earth. But people don't like to believe this. They make… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“Myths born in patriarchy offer a limited source of data on women. What they usually tell is how women react under patriarchy.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
What is the consequent effect on a society of beings looking for themselves in the myths on the screen? It's safe to… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me. — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
We're not able to hide behind myths of this being a post-racial society because Donald Trump has outlined exactly how a large… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
“Myths tell us what those like us have done, can do, should do. Without myths to lead the way, we hesitate to… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I think that obviously humans find it very difficult to believe that there is no there there. So they created these stories… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal… — Fred Van Lente Copy Share Image
The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The bedroom is an archetype. To me it stands for a lot of the silliness of our modern culture where the kind… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
“That's all any of these myths have been trying to do. To take a huge, terrifying phenomenon, something you can only stare… — Cory O'Brien 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
I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe… — Megan Fox 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
“Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version… — Edward Rothstein Copy Share Image
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because I was an only, I had more things, and I remember early on the kick I got from giving stuff away.… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
