The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
We can certainly see contemporary examples of people who radically change. As long you believe your spouse will never change and you… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence says that myths are "inexhaustible" because they are symbols of heart mysteries. That is, they can't be exhausted - they… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
I think another [myth] is that some marriages are just hopeless. This is a common thing I hear from people, "Well, I… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It… — William Galston Copy Share Image
How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation...just as storytellers have done,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Every time I open Facebook, I see a post with something like, "We must forgive or be prisoners of our own bitterness… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
“There is child in all of us that refuses to grow up, a child that is in awe of what can be,… — Shatrujeet Nath Copy Share Image
Today a new faith is awakening — the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our… — John Frederick Nims Copy Share Image
You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a… — John Lennon 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
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image