The myth of independence from the mother is abandoned in mid- life as women learn new routes around the mother--both the mother… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
“To the modernist, “myth,” like religion, merely signifies a comfortable and entrenched lie. For the postmodernist, myth simply represents one story, one… — Bradley J. Birzer Copy Share Image
“Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy.… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Narrative, in short. is more than literature, it is the way we understand our lives. If literature merely supplied entertainment, then it… — Robert N. Bellah Copy Share Image
Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior,… — Tom Flynn Copy Share Image
There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in… — Michel Foucault 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
“Fairy tales, fantasy, legend and myth...these stories, and their topics, and the symbolism and interpretation of those topics...these things have always held… — Helen Pilinovsky Copy Share Image
Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image