Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth,… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite… — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Out of necessity, one needs to occasionally consume, but I'm a little concerned that there's a little bit of a myth arising… — Chip Giller Copy Share Image
Myths that need clarification: "No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears." False.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras,… — Hilda Scott Copy Share Image
In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It… — William Galston Copy Share Image
There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“Deeply rooted in the universalist Western tradition of the Stoics and the the early medieval Christians, Tolkien created a myth to explore… — Bradley J. Birzer Copy Share Image
Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons. — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss… — Yukiru Sugisaki Copy Share Image
Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making… — Karlheinz Deschner Copy Share Image
