“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin… — Edward Clodd Copy Share Image
Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend--but if you write about animals, the evil do not recognize themselves but the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the… — Euripides Copy Share Image
He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with… — Alvin R. Dyer Copy Share Image
“But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity;… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them… — Barbara Cooney Copy Share Image
Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. — Aesop Copy Share Image
I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white… — Stan Brakhage Copy Share Image
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Though President Obama was at his smooth and polished best the other night, two aspects of his worldview came into sharper relief… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There is an Indian fable of three beings who drank from a river: one was a god, and he drank ambrosia; one… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
One of the oldest mythological fables tells of Mercury playing at dice with Selene and winning from her the five days of… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
“Martin, fables are possibly one of the most interesting literary forms ever invented. Do you know what they teach us? Moral lessons?… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the… — Denis Johnston Copy Share Image
I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like 'Fables,' to books like… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My work is very eclectic. I write books that range from writing fiction, writing fable where I am very directly trying to… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
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