I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
“In the New Testament, "myth stands over against the truth (aletheia) of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Puffy's the only guy who's jealous. All drummers want to be singers. I think it's a myth that the singer needs to… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“On the nights I stuffed myself full of myths, I dreamed of college, of being pumped full of all the old knowledge… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women's 'choices' of work type, hours, and child related career breaks,… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air.… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
“When we can't understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entities that we can relate to. We… — Chelsie Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but… — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most… — John Howe Copy Share Image
Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential… — Satyananda Saraswati Copy Share Image
Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected,… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The biggest myth about fatherhood that you get given a direct phone number to talk to Santa and tell him how your… — Chris Ramsey Copy Share Image
I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked… — Linda Evans Copy Share Image
The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
You know, some people think Shadowhunters are just myths. Like mummies and genies." Kyle grinned at Jace. "Can you grant wishes?" "That… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
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