“Time slipped and slid around him, unanchored by any fact that could be verified. Perhaps it did not matter. 'Where does our… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So,… — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“The communist world, it may be noted, has one big myth (which we call an illusion, in the vain hope that our… — Carl Gustav Jung Copy Share Image
Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
“Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and through… — Pat O'Shea Copy Share Image
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
“Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though… — Bernie Siegel M.D Copy Share Image
In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“CAMPBELL: The individual has to find an aspect of myth that relates to his own life. Myth basically serves four functions. The… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I see "demand creation" as a 20th-century construct that's bound up with advertising. It's an outmoded view of marketing that says, "First,… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
“In actuality, myths are neither fiction nor history. Nor are most myths—and this will surprise some people—an amalgamation of fiction and history.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“But no-one came here to live an ordinary life. Despite what our somnambulistic, mythless society society tells us — a place stuffed… — Thea Euryphaessa Copy Share Image
The nation, like the church, has its visible symbols and insignia, its parchments engrossed with the revealed word, its dogmas, hymns, liturgy,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
You become a character in a meta-drama into which your own dramatizing has pitched you. The rewards can be fantastic, the punishments… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
America is among the countries the advance countries with the least equality of opportunity, which means that the - while I prospects… — Jedediah Bila Copy Share Image
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The whole thing died in my mind long before the rumpus started. We used to believe the Beatles myth just as much… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I know that there's this one Albanian myth that's always reflected on, and I think it reflects on the actual core culture.… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes.… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Responding to myth often means wearing blinkers. Myth is a complex game of production and reception that involves selecting some parts of… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are… — Naomi Weisstein Copy Share Image
Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part… — Maurice Hayes Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
With The Myth of Achievement Tests, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz have offered a wealth of insightful analysis… — Eric A. Hanushek Copy Share Image
You look at the Koran or the Bible, they all tell the same stories. You see them as the stories of the… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“You cannot be a hero unless you are prepared to give up everything; there is no ascent to the heights without a… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
![“[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a…” quote by Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/19d/joseph-campbell-300_ancient_comedies-in-the-ancient-world-were-regar_2396551.jpg)
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