Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
“If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythological lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States... It is based… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
The images of Myth are reflections of Spiritual and Depth potentialities of every one of us. Through contemplating those we evoke those… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
“Through action, a Man becomes a Hero. Through death, a Hero becomes a Legend. Through time, a Legend becomes a Myth. By… — Grant Hope Copy Share Image
Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
“The 5-year-old sees that Paradise correctly, not in technology but in the fairy story, in the great myths that control and guide… — George Sheehan Copy Share Image
What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
“It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more. It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves… — David Bowles Copy Share Image
There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage… — Michelangelo Signorile Copy Share Image
The idea that guys should walk into a bar and confidently initiate contact and then seduce a woman based on a short… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its… — Hans Ree Copy Share Image
There's an ideology that's taken hold of universities, that has taken hold of elite establishments, that is committed to the myth of… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive,… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
I was totally taken in and totally taken by that myth starting in 1999, rather carelessly writing about this archive and starting… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes… — Modris Eksteins Copy Share Image
It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“The world has fully lost touch with the old ways. Magic has always stayed so well hidden and out of sight that… — Kassandra Cross Copy Share Image
“Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business.” — Gerard Brennan and Mike Stone Copy Share Image
If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, then there is really no hope for you to have a good relationship. That… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
For me what was very important was to try to capture the essence that might have existed behind the myth, the human… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the… — Kode9 Copy Share Image
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you… — Brother Ali Copy Share Image
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