Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Women have always been healers. Cultural myths from around the world describe a time when only women knew the secrets of life… — Jeanne Achterberg Copy Share Image
Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss… — Yukiru Sugisaki Copy Share Image
“I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the… — Alvar Ellegård Copy Share Image
“New Age spirituality purports to promote change – its mantra is ‘transformation’ – but, in reality, it endorses the status quo. It… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
It's a common myth that athletes and other highly active people need the protein from meat and dairy to fuel their activities… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“The biggest myth about comedy is that it’s magical, unknowable, unteachable. Those who subscribe to that myth believe that the world is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As Christians learn how self-styled Jews have spent millions of dollars to manufacture the 'Jewish myth' for Christian consumption and that they… — Benjamin H. Freedman Copy Share Image
“I have a very clear memory of my first encounter with myth, sitting in a mobile library and travelling, at the same… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
One problem that I kept in mind was that in avoiding the BODY BEAUTIFUL as exhibited in the pseudo-lesbians of David Hamilton… — Tee Corinne Copy Share Image
[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“There are plenty of atheists in foxholes. What I don't see are Christians in foxholes. If a Christian soldier takes a bullet… — Sam Singleton Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children stories. They were better than that. They just were. Adult stories… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication… — Ennio Flaiano Copy Share Image
I think it's a bit of a myth that black Americans need one leader. We're not a monolith. And now that legal… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I think the idea that women have all this wonderful emotion is a myth, as well as the fact that men do… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Mythographer was suggested by the man who made my website, actually. I do write a lot about myth and I do feel… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Something you discover as a writer is that actresses who are successful are incredibly smart. For some reason, there's this myth that… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
The Russian myth that they broadcast to the world, and have their various surrogates in the West repeat, is that somehow the… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
The Christ is a myth. The Holy Ghost Priestcraft overshadowed the harlot Superstition; this Christ was born; and the Joseph of humanity,… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
“You call a tree a tree, he said, and you think nothing more of the word. But it was not a 'tree'… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Similarly, the press never tested many of the assumptions about WMDs. One of the great myths about the WMD issue is that… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
“For man seems to be unable to live without myth, without the belief that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Now keep in mind that the typical Greek myth goes something like this: innocent shepherd boy is minding his own business, an… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
A 'Hitler myth' was cultivated which built on people's desire for strong leadership, and presented Hitler as an almost God-like figure. Hitler's… — Alison Kitson Copy Share Image
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