It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Admixing the inner space of dream, trance, and myth with the events of everyday existence characterized every belief system worldwide before the… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing… — Susannah Constantine Copy Share Image
True revolution comes not when we learn to ignore our fat and pretend we're no different, but when we learn to use… — Nomy Lamm 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
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
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
“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
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
The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections — not only between us… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“They spell-caught the sounds of cat paws, the breath of fish, the spittle of birds, the hairs of a woman's beard, and… — Ingri D'Aulaire Copy Share Image
“What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into… — Walter Burkert Copy Share Image
Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think one of the other myths is that your environment determines your happiness. That if you are living with an alcoholic… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
“This is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden—if they were hidden, they could not be… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I think that critiquing the myths of our society and helping people find their way through them is a very important thing.… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story… — Bruno Heller Copy Share Image
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very early on and they're not… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued,… — Bruce Berger Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a… — David Bellamy Copy Share Image
A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
...choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason… — William Powell Copy Share Image
