When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences… — Mary Midgley 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
rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life—yet more… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
If I've learnt one thing, it's that I need to surround myself with people who want to know the real Pete Wentz,… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Collective guilt is borne by what is conventionally called the scapegoat. Now the scapegoat for white society - which is based on… — Frantz Fanon 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
In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely… — Melanie Rae Thon Copy Share Image
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that… — Jay Carr Copy Share Image
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good,… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ...… — G. C. Berkouwer Copy Share Image
Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth,… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
As a child I became a confirmed believer in the ancient gods simply because as between the reality of fact and the… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal… — Fred Van Lente Copy Share Image
The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for… — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel Copy Share Image
I am thrilled when I read about fans using my stories as springboards to read about either the historical characters or the… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
I hate to debunk the myth - kids don't wanna hear it - but as songwriters, you have to polish your craft… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
