It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic,… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world.… — A. D. Coleman Copy Share Image
The reverse process is extremely important to me - that artistic images can inspire to words and different myths, and that in… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures.… — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“I should acquaint the reader with the basic principles of the mythology I adhered to then. I believed . . . that… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“You walked into this village with a thunder tiger beside you. You have slain demons with your own hands. Are the old… — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American… — Arnold Aronson Copy Share Image
“[On Jason Mashak's book SALTY AS A LIP, as reviewed in The Prague Post:] Mashak amalgamates various national, historical and religious traditions… — Stephan Delbos Copy Share Image
I was interested first of all in trying to capture this myth that was always changing and to create some sort of… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling,… — Gurbaksh Chahal Copy Share Image
A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I think the older you get, you start to break down the myth and you get to the dirt of it -… — Jena Malone Copy Share Image
The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
This generation, and many others, have been led to believe that the devil is a myth, a figure, an idea, the idea… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The important thing is to make a different world, to make a world that is not now. A real world, a genuine… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Mythology is part of our heritage, part of our identity at times because anywhere in India you will find the name of… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By asseting the creation myth, in which God is a man over ealier creation myths in which God was viewed as a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself… — Jane Caputi Copy Share Image
At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate.… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!"… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
“Creationism doesn’t belong as a comparative to anything even remotely connected to reality, and by passing it off as anything other than… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
“The same pattern of the creation by supernatural gods of an ordered Universe out of Chaos occurs over and over again in… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme… — John Bierhorst 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
![“The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight - that God is, like Santa Claus, a myth of childhood, not anything [that] a sane, undeluded adult could literally believe in. That God must either be turned into a symbol for…” quote by Daniel Dennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ec/daniel-dennett-3895_abandoned_the-kindly-god-who-lovingly-fashioned-ea_2710685.jpg)
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