All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
But the myth of power is, of course, a very powerful myth, and probably most people in this world more or less… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you.… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Myth basically serves four functions. The first is the mystical function,... realizing what a wonder the universe is, and what a wonder… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If women allow themselves to be consoled for their culturally determined lack of access to the modes of intellectual debate by the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
“And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“As you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that your journey be a long one, filled with adventure, filled with… — Barry B. Powell Copy Share Image
There is no sex without a cue. People who date have their cues at home, before they meet. You think about where… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
“I think of myth and magic as the hieroglyphics of the human psyche. They are a special language that circumvents conscious thought… — Ripley Patton Copy Share Image
It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth,… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant… — Mary Zimmerman Copy Share Image
This country has such little sense of itself sometimes, I'm astonished. America is one of the biggest myth-making countries, whether we're talking… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“What is more, as J. R. R. Tolkien reminds us in his great essay on Beowulf, there is a danger that attends rational and… — Gregory Alan Thornbury Copy Share Image
I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth of the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives.… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Literally, the Bible is a gigantic myth, a narrative extending over the whole of time from creation to apocalypse, unified by a… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“Myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless pattern, the religious formula to which life shapes itself. Whereas in the… — Clarissa Johal Copy Share Image
All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
“This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
![“At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c5/anonymous-1_add_at-all-ages-if-fantasy-and-myth-is-used_1976082.jpg)
