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
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
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
'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
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
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
With The Myth of Achievement Tests, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz have offered a wealth of insightful analysis… — Eric A. Hanushek Copy Share Image
“You cannot be a hero unless you are prepared to give up everything; there is no ascent to the heights without a… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
You look at the Koran or the Bible, they all tell the same stories. You see them as the stories of the… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to… — Guy Claxton Copy Share Image
The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part… — Maurice Hayes Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern… — Tim Cahill 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
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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but… — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Greece; it's like kids… — Reg E. Cathey Copy Share Image
There is actually a great book called Prima Donna by Rupert -Christiansen that deconstructs the myth. In fact, many of the women… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Congress has always had a soft spot for "experts" who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane,… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
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