If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it… — Steven Conrad Copy Share Image
... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight. — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Well, just to dispel all the myths, Walt [Disney] was not anti-Semitic. He was not racist in any way, shape, or form.… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
“Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps… — Thea Euryphaessa Copy Share Image
“My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“It is the mythic experience, the mythic imagination that opens, reveals depth and mystery, which places the human in the context of… — Tom Cheetham Copy Share Image
The Orpheus myth is my favorite myth, and the prodigal son is my favorite parable. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I think one of the myths is that people don't change. A lot of people believe that. Their spouse has been an… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as… — Walker Evans 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