Myth Quotes · Page 13

I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

— Alan Watts

“Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.”

— Peter Burke

There is a myth that is being perpetuated that I am afraid of snakes. And I am not afraid of snakes!

— Nikita Dutta

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

— Michael Shermer

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

— Denis MacShane

There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning

— Cassandra Clare

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

— Margaret Atwood

“Sometimes the only difference between myth and truth is the spelling.”

— John Pirillo

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which…

— Wallace Stevens

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial…

— Leo Bogart

Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits,…

— Jasper Fforde

The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for…

— Thomas Sowell

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to…

— Jessica Lange

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think…

— Peter Doig

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only…

— Alan Watts

[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very…

— Milan Kundera

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and…

— Isaac Asimov

Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there…

— Benjamin De Casseres

“You claim that the evidentiary miracle is present and available, namely, the Koran. You say: 'Whoever denies it, let him produce a…

— Anonymous

Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more…

— Joseph Campbell

Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At…

— Mark Twain

“The surface world may be as much a myth to the subterraneans as the underworld is to us.”

— Priscilla Vogelbacher

We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

— Douglas Rushkoff

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

— Aristotle

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

— Andrew O'Hagan

“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.”

— Anonymous

“what was myth in one world might always be fact in some other.”

— C.S. Lewis

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

— Hershel Shanks

“Let’s train ourselves to not hate each other. We all come from the same consciousness in the mind.”

— Allan Wesler

“Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

— Tracy Keenan Wynn

People think that if you are young, you don't know what is best for you. That's a myth.

— Declan McKenna

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

— Joseph Campbell

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

— Alexander Chee

“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.”

— Daikichi Irokawa

No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.

— Wislawa Szymborska