“This is the time of myths. They are woven into the present like silk strands from the past, like a wire mesh… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“First we must learn to think mythologically. Powerful things happen when we touch the thinking which myths, fairy tales, and our own… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers.… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
“I remember when Elvis died. I wrote my sentiments with words of a little girl in my dear diary, "Many people wanted… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do… — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Camels can go many weeks without drinking anything at all. The notion that they cache water in their humps is pure myth—their… — Michael Benanav Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition,… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Sonia Gandhi and her husband have always been persons I look at with a lot of respect. Of course, one of the… — Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Copy Share Image
“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think touring in America lives up to the myth, in all ways of what touring is. So many pretty cities, and… — Erik Hassle Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“[When asked about his thoughts on gods] I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It seems far simpler to go ahead and say that the epic is a fantastic myth, that happens to be true of… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
I don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be… — Lisa Anderson Copy Share Image
Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth,… — D. M. Thomas Copy Share Image
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind… Furthermore, no geological evidence… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
I think a lot of kids do dream in their own way, except 25, 30 years later legend happens because some of… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
“Know, child, that the One God—He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
![“[When asked about his thoughts on gods] I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's been told too many times and just doesn't mean anything. Man lived on the planet — [placing his fingers an inch apart], this is 5000 years of semi-recorded history. And God and the…” quote by Eddie Vedder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/533/eddie-vedder-2057_atheism_when-asked-about-his-thoughts-on-gods-i_3019910.png)
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