“The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth… — Brian Godawa Copy Share Image
Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power… — Michael Bergin Copy Share Image
No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Imagination is more important than knowledge, myth more than history and dreams more than facts. Hope always triumphs over experience and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a myth that generally Asians are mostly vegetarians. The Japanese are the kings of red meat, but it's expensive. The Chinese… — Wolfgang Puck Copy Share Image
I see "demand creation" as a 20th-century construct that's bound up with advertising. It's an outmoded view of marketing that says, "First,… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“In actuality, myths are neither fiction nor history. Nor are most myths—and this will surprise some people—an amalgamation of fiction and history.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though… — Bernie Siegel M.D Copy Share Image
In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“CAMPBELL: The individual has to find an aspect of myth that relates to his own life. Myth basically serves four functions. The… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and through… — Pat O'Shea Copy Share Image
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth… — Henri Bourassa Copy Share Image
I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax… — Ari Fleischer Copy Share Image
As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to… — Jeffrey Hunter Copy Share Image
Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the… — Denis Johnston Copy Share Image
Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes,… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at… — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
Commentating, illustrating, description-giving Adjective expert. Analyzing, surmising, Musical, myth-seeking people of the universe... This is yours! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
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