What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If women allow themselves to be consoled for their culturally determined lack of access to the modes of intellectual debate by the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Myth basically serves four functions. The first is the mystical function,... realizing what a wonder the universe is, and what a wonder… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you.… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
But the myth of power is, of course, a very powerful myth, and probably most people in this world more or less… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales, fantasy, legend and myth...these stories, and their topics, and the symbolism and interpretation of those topics...these things have always held… — Helen Pilinovsky Copy Share Image
All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
I actually met a producer of Stanley Kubrick's who told me that Kubrick had never even thought about doing Perfume: The Story… — Tom Tykwer Copy Share Image
Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
With apologies to the green movement, "sustainability" is a myth. History and archaeology show that societies are always moving to the edge… — Arthur Demarest Copy Share Image
Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
The act of abortion positions women at their most powerful, and that is why it is so strongly opposed by many in… — Merle Hoffman Copy Share Image
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. To keep these characters static - like Superman… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing… — Marie-Louise von Franz Copy Share Image
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about,… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
How do we solve the problem by allowing a number of refugees to return to Israel, allowing a number of refugees to… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Well, this is only a story, isn't it? I mean, our patrons, anyone who comes to this park, are they going to… — Pam Jones Copy Share Image
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“One measure of how deeply these myths express elemental human concerns is the extent to which they are both timeless and universal.… — Margaret Mark Copy Share Image
Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, the French managed to get a death on the myth that they produce the world's best food. The… — Clarissa Dickson Wright Copy Share Image
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Black people in the US are told all the time, from all aspects, that they're nothing, that they're less than. And of… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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