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
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
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
“Write for joy. It is the *only* reason to write. Whatever happens to your books afterward, just write for joy. Send your… — Welwyn Wilton Katz Copy Share Image
I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say… — Euvin Naidoo Copy Share Image
Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
“We are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition, worry about the plight of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women who just don't like each other because the other one is a woman and "women don't like each other" myth -… — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent,… — Tim O'Shea Copy Share Image
The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Through Action, a Man becomes a Hero. Through Death, a Hero becomes a Legend. Through Time, a Legend becomes a Myth. Through… — uknown Copy Share Image
It is hard for many people to give up the religion in which they were born; to admit that their fathers were… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we… — Dorothy Norman Copy Share Image
There's this myth out there that self-perpetuates that candidates believe that although the populace cares about corruption, they're not going to vote… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“Myth is the isthmus which connects the peninsular world of thought with that vast continent we really belong to. It is not,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of… — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making… — Karlheinz Deschner Copy Share Image
“Any particular term—myth, legend, saga, folktale, and so forth—tends to be used in so many differing ways by different people that without… — R.W.L. Moberly Copy Share Image
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Into an allegory a man can put only what he already knows; in a myth he puts what he does not yet… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
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