Myth Quotes · Page 23

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

— Carl Jung

The first 'Ring' in Bayreuth was about the poetical world, the mythological world.

— Robert Lepage

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

— Ted Malloch

Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

— James Altucher

There is a whole myth about super people. That super people can do everything and they do it on their own.

— Therese Rein

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

— Oscar Wilde

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

— Irwin Edman

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

— Brian Eno

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely…

— Norman Granz

“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function…

— Joseph Campbell

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story…

— John Granger

“Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the…

— Jo Walton

“The twin enemies of mythology are logic and empirical data, the chief weapons of true science. If either weapon is neutralized, mythology…

— R. C. Sproul

Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why,…

— Peter Kreeft

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate…

— Jean O'Leary

“How sad for us that I have made a myth of us when what keeps me from sleeping is the memory of...your…

— Eireann Corrigan

“The communist world, it may be noted, has one big myth (which we call an illusion, in the vain hope that our…

— Carl Gustav Jung

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like,…

— Northrop Frye

Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent…

— Elaine Stritch

Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place…

— Bernard Nathanson

“Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and through…

— Pat O'Shea

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by…

— Phyllis McGinley

Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about…

— P. L. Travers

“Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of…

— Joseph Campbell

Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I,…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to…

— Boris Pasternak

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

— Walter Benjamin

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

— Paul Gauguin

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

— Carl Jung

There is some confusion between insects and creatures, insects are common, and certain creatures are curious … possibly fun.

— Grass Hopper

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real…

— Conor Oberst

“Is there really such a thing as perfection? Of course not! It's a myth, a vicious rumor.”

— Aimee Cohen

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

— Elizabeth Janeway

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

— C. S. Lewis

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

— Rollo May

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

— Kent McCord

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

— Naomi Wolf

“Myth: Being a vampire changes your life. Truth: Well, we'll just have to see, won't we?”

— Kimberly Pauley

It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.

— Gavid Hood

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

— Dan Mangan