The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things,… — Tom Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite… — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of… — Tom Harpur Copy Share Image
“Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion… — Anne Fontaine Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't;… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt —… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind,… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage… — Michelangelo Signorile Copy Share Image
The idea that guys should walk into a bar and confidently initiate contact and then seduce a woman based on a short… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more. It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves… — David Bowles Copy Share Image
There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“They yoked themselves to a car and drew her all the long way through dust and heat. Everyone admired their filial piety… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the… — Joe Ehrmann Copy Share Image
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The great myth is the manager as orchestra conductor. It's this idea of standing on a pedestal and you wave your baton… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
“. Myth and superstition cannot compete with science on the platforms of reason and facts. But on the platform of fear mongering,… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
Myths that need clarification: "No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears." False.… — Erma Bombeck 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
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
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
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
