Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! -… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that… — Ginette Paris Copy Share Image
There is some confusion between insects and creatures, insects are common, and certain creatures are curious .... possibly fun. — Grass Hopper Copy Share Image
I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable. — Hozier Copy Share Image
Myths, by their definition, involve transformations, struggles through various worlds or layers of reality and of obscuration. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one;… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
Everything I write now might have roots in myths, often disguised,often dissolved into new multi-ethnic myths of my own making. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
As you enter the world of myth, you have immediately a wonderful freedom. — David Farr Copy Share Image
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Did the Abrahamic God know that, by "divinely inspiring" the book of Genesis and other tales in the Bible, that He would… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
I think another [myth] is that some marriages are just hopeless. This is a common thing I hear from people, "Well, I… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin… — Edward Clodd Copy Share Image
There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks.… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
“it's a myth, you know; he doesn't have to draw blood for him to leave a scar.” — Angeli Cabal Copy Share Image
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
It is my belief that we need a new transnational sustaining 'myth' that can impart value and respect. It is my further… — Stuart Kauffman Copy Share Image
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