I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that,… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
There is an unknown room in the soul that is constantly turning the stuff of daydreams into myths for us, helping us… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence.… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe,… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a… — Karen MacNeil Copy Share Image
Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Why is there this myth? People say, 'Oh, you are a style icon. You're 'French, French, French.' It's not true, you know;… — Jeanne Damas Copy Share Image
I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign.… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths… — John Fante Copy Share Image
If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and… — Bal Gangadhar Tilak Copy Share Image
“Was the whole matter of aptitudes a myth – a copout used by people like me to avoid subjects that would force… — William Zinsser 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
It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
All the superhero stuff is Greek myths and Greek gods, wearing tights and capes. That's what they are. That's what I gravitate… — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest myths in the world - and the phrase 'greatest myths is just a fancy way of saying 'big… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the… — Jeremy Narby Copy Share Image
I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this… — Anna Journey 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
Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and… — Craig Shirley Copy Share Image
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream… — Baz Luhrmann Copy Share Image
