Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature…Ultimately, the… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
God is, to me, pretty much an idea. God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the… — Adolph Gottlieb Copy Share Image
'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,' Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth. A report, a… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Here is one reason I think we always need new tarot decks being created. I think of tarot decks as similar to… — Barbara Moore Copy Share Image
One of our continuing myths was summed up in Huckleberry Finn: Our escape, what we think of as our escape, is that… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all… — Tom Peters 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
It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
“Ymir was a frost giant; he was evil from the first. While he slept, he began to sweat. A man and woman… — Kevin Crossley-Holland Copy Share Image
If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no… — Nahoko Uehashi Copy Share Image
The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
I think one of the myths is that people don't change. A lot of people believe that. Their spouse has been an… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Well documented, the relationship of literature to myth in the Western world has undergone much change over the millennia, as first the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Christian Grey - he isn't a real person. He's a superhero. A myth. He's like Bigfoot! He's unbelievable. He's unattainable. There's no… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The only thing they [government] want is better data. But data doesn't tell people someone is well educated. It's a vicious circle.… — Deborah Meier Copy Share Image
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe.… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
“Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
“If ‘myth’ is a slippery term, so is ‘classical’. It is common shorthand for ‘ancient Greek and Roman’. But this shorthand has… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“Myth: Vampires have huge stockpiles of gold and treasure. Truth: If that were true, I'd be able to get my dad to… — Kimberly Pauley Copy Share Image
“Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps… — Thea Euryphaessa Copy Share Image
I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results —… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
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