“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The poetic myths are dead; and the poetic image, which is the myth of the individual, reigns in their stead. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“Reason. It is no more reliable a tool than instinct, myth or dream. But it has the potential to be far more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A religion deeply rooted in theology, is never above skepticism hinged upon the twin pillars; of reason & facts.” — Mamur Mustapha Copy Share Image
True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you? — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
“What does our great historical hunger signify, our clutching about us of countless cultures, our consuming desire for knowledge, if not the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery… — Tom Harper Copy Share Image
“Peace as rumor and hope as the stuff of myth is the manifestation of the person who cannot see beyond the short… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of… — Mark Matousek Copy Share Image
Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The man who will be the future of the WWE. He will be right under me. He is the man, he is… — The Miz Copy Share Image
At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which… — Heather Hart Copy Share Image
The feelings, myths and prejudices about the Negro American which now seem so valid and real to some of our white contemporaries… — Margaret Halsey 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
“But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver. No, said Tolkien, they are not. ...just as speech is… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
If the majority of the "spiritual market" is drawn to prerational magic and myth, how do you reach the small group who… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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
But it is a myth to assume that the larger amount of early stimulation you provide, the more beneficial it will be.… — Julius Segal Copy Share Image
The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
“The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.” — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
“Fact and myth are history’s bedfellows; it’s hard to wake one without disturbing the other.” — J.G. McKenney Copy Share Image
The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth… — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
“Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.” — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether... — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Your endurance is strongly influenced by your fundamental myth about the fighting.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“Security is a strange thing, a myth that the brain allows in exchange for a brief moment of peace.” — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection. — Debora Spar 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
“it's a myth, you know; he doesn't have to draw blood for him to leave a scar.” — Angeli Cabal Copy Share Image
Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
The myth of the poor Jesus needs to be destroyed, because it's holding people back. — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image