Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Every time I open Facebook, I see a post with something like, "We must forgive or be prisoners of our own bitterness… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“There is child in all of us that refuses to grow up, a child that is in awe of what can be,… — Shatrujeet Nath Copy Share Image
Today a new faith is awakening — the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It… — William Galston Copy Share Image
How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation...just as storytellers have done,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Here is one reason I think we always need new tarot decks being created. I think of tarot decks as similar to… — Barbara Moore Copy Share Image
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One of our continuing myths was summed up in Huckleberry Finn: Our escape, what we think of as our escape, is that… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it… — Ivan Illich 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
What they teach you as history is mythology and true mythology is far from fantasy -- it is our true history. A… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer… — Bill Reid Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy, it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of… — Emil Brunner Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest myths in the world - & the phrase 'greatest myths' is just a fancy way of saying 'big… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
... the job [at the Manhattan Institute] gives me a platform where I can focus on the themes that I explored in… — Robert Bryce Copy Share Image
Before our eyes we have the results of ideologies such as Marxism, Nazism and fascism, and also of myths like racial superiority,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
![“... the job [at the Manhattan Institute] gives me a platform where I can focus on the themes that I explored in both Gusher of Lies and Power Hungry: that the myths about "green" energy are largely just that, myths; that hydrocarbons are here to stay; and that if we are going to pursue the best…” quote by Robert Bryce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d4a/robert-bryce-54024_energy_the-job-at-the-manhattan-institute-gives_3159320.jpg)
