Women have always been healers. Cultural myths from around the world describe a time when only women knew the secrets of life… — Jeanne Achterberg Copy Share Image
“It is your task to walk back from the woods with an animal, not a pelt, not a corpse, but something alive.… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver. No, said Tolkien, they are not. ...just as speech is… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
“There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most… — Hypatia Copy Share Image
Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Gay brothers and sisters... You must come out. Come out to your relatives... come out to your friends... Come out to your… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The loss of that oral tradition and the breakdown of communication between generations had set my family adrift, floating aimlessly without history… — Diane Wilson Copy Share Image
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
America is among the countries the advance countries with the least equality of opportunity, which means that the - while I prospects… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
