“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“This is the myth of the Dark Ages, the idea that history and progress pretty much stopped for a millennium after the… — Ehsan Masood Copy Share Image
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular myth, werewolves myth, werewolves are born, not made. No matter how many times they bite someone, that person will… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
I think that obviously humans find it very difficult to believe that there is no there there. So they created these stories… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the… — R. W. Apple Copy Share Image
I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Science is much closer to myth than a scientific philosophy is prepared to admit. It is one of the many forms of… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“While the post-Civil War southerners were pushing as fast as they could into the New South, were grasping Yankee dollars with enthusiasm,… — Frank E. Vandiver Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“It is noted that from 1967 to 1995 essays on negative emotions far outnumbered those on positive emotions in the psychological literature.… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
It is a myth that the success of science in our time is mainly due to the huge amounts of money that… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I don't say that I'm an atheist. I don't like that term, because I think it mirrors the certitude of religion. I… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in… — Rick Dees Copy Share Image
Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight!… — Burn Gorman Copy Share Image
“Myths and legends, either about divinities or the formation and history of peoples and races, began to look like pictures on a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
There are places in this world where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
“The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth and legend. But some… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The lie was that we believed that we believed all people were created equal! What made us think we were this great… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
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