The bedroom tax turfed people, many of them disabled, out of their homes, while the government disseminated myths about people living it… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
“It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts;… — Edith Hamilton Mythology 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
“Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths.” — M.F. Moonzajer 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
Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
“If these out-of date beliefs are to be called myths, then myths can be produced by the same sorts of methods and… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better… — Marianne de Pierres Copy Share Image
“Other “no-word-for” and “can’t-be-translated” myths include the stories that the Irish have no word for “sex” or even “yes” (how, one wonders,… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Religious or secular, all myths make profound sense to one group of people. Not to everyone. They cannot be rationalized beyond a… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales,… — Lee Hall Copy Share Image
2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“1. Myth: Without God, life has no meaning. There are 1.2 billion Chinese who have no predominant religion, and 1 billion people… — Matt McCormick Copy Share Image
“The ancient Numantians are to this day Spain’s paragons of heroism and patriotism, cast as role models for the country’s young people.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Was [Sisyphus] from your province? 'I don't know. I don't know if he's real,' Ky says. 'If he ever existed.' 'Then why… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There are a lot of myths about food banks, but the truth is that many people are increasingly having to turn to… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
“It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only… — Alan Watts 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
There are plenty of myths out there that are either really expensive to do or incredibly difficult or complicated to execute. — Grant Imahara Copy Share Image
Personally I'm more into science and engineering types of things, not so much into testing 'Star Wars' myths. — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
“The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.” — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
“Anachron’s Law: There is no myth which is so irrational that no one will believe it. Anachron’s Corollary: There is no truth… — George Hammond Copy Share Image
By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
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