Myths that need clarification: Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach. False. The only people who live on California beaches… — Erma Bombeck 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… — Anonymous 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
“If I say I do not believe in faeries or elves or trolls, does this imply that I have a set of… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us… — Shauna Niequist 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
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
To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
If the majority of the "spiritual market" is drawn to prerational magic and myth, how do you reach the small group who… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of… — C.S. Lewis 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
Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
I love helicopters. In fact, my wife and my friends, the myth of the chopper in the sky is that Len's going… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You must forgive everyone. Now many would say that "We cannot forgive, it's very difficult." But it's a myth whether you forgive… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
