Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity. — Roy Basler Copy Share Image
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Love is just a myth, true love on the other hand is a whole different story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. — John Major Copy Share Image
“Not that I can think of. In fact, I have never met anyone who didn’t like gargoyles.” — Shayla Orick Copy Share Image
There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“Rainie, mythologies take longer to die than people believe. They linger on in a kind of dream country that affects all of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So much for the myth that motherhood is all Laura Ashley smocks and skipping through fields. People think it's rose-tinted and they… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important… — James Christensen Copy Share Image
A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth -… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
The myth is that women and their families don't have to make trade-offs to have an 'extreme career'; they absolutely do. How… — Angela Braly 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
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Writing a book about [Buckminster Fuller] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as… — David Shi Copy Share Image
Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to… — Sallust 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
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image