Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“The position of the palms together- this we use when we pray, do we not? That is a greeting that says that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
But it is a myth to assume that the larger amount of early stimulation you provide, the more beneficial it will be.… — Julius Segal Copy Share Image
We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Creativity is simply the human brain forming new connections between ideas, and we all are engaged in this process every day. The… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It's a bit of a myth that too much cholesterol causes heart attacks. — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the… — Camryn Manheim Copy Share Image
As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement. — Naomi Wolf 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
I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Christian Grey - he isn't a real person. He's a superhero. A myth. He's like Bigfoot! He's unbelievable. He's unattainable. There's no… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone. — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
