“myths reflect centuries of oral tradition in non-literate as well as literate peoples – when it comes to the supernatural, there's no… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
“Myths tell us what those like us have done, can do, should do. Without myths to lead the way, we hesitate to… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language. — Diane Wakoski 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
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 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
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Then it’s decided. In the end, we are just as mortal as man. But while God will save a few, we will… — Glen Robinson Copy Share Image
The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene,… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
“Reading myth as crystallizing historical fact was a common approach in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is an approach… — Helen Morales 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
To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth,… — Theodore Zeldin 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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