Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth… — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe.… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing… — Marie-Louise von Franz 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
“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney 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
There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
“The surface world may be as much a myth to the subterraneans as the underworld is to us.” — Priscilla Vogelbacher Copy Share Image
I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results —… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be… — Lisa Anderson Copy Share Image
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
