“We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You could do… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
When we start making distinctions between soul and spirit, we're in very, very murky waters. There is the whole issue of the… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
“From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
The myth of self-sufficiency blinds us to the workings of other forces in family life. For families are not now, nor were… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“National historical myths are a way of giving identity and more authenticity to a people. Exodus flattered the Jews half a millennium… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“What makes someone mythic is not whether or not he lived, or lived well, but whether or not he was larger than… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My early stories revolved around reality and faith. I wrote a series of stories about the darker aspects of Christian myth: a… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“A child, left to play alone, says of quite an easy thing, 'Now I am going to to do something very difficult'.… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one… — John Medina Copy Share Image
I consider myself a progressive, so my answer would be that we need to be progressive. For some reason the people in… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot.… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have . . . that you become a leader by fighting your… — William Cohen Copy Share Image
Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were… — Cary Elwes Copy Share Image
We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in this world. One child is given… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“The universal hero myth always refers to a powerful man or god-man who vanquishes evil in the form of drag- ons, serpents,… — C.G. Jung Copy Share Image
Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution.… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's the shape of the stories that matters, the way belief forms around it. The story has real weight', He pointed at… — Karen Healey Copy Share Image
At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras,… — Hilda Scott Copy Share Image
“An interesting contrast between the geology of the present day and that of half a century ago, is presented by the complete… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
