You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that… — Humphrey Carpenter Copy Share Image
Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“The multitude of men and women choose the less adventurous way of the comparatively unconscious civic and tribal routines. But these seekers,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“In their purest form myths, not unlike tragedy, are perhaps the most important moment in the troubled history of Mexican civilization. The… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Copy Share Image
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“The historical truth is a fiction. OK, I did whatever I could to find out what happened from surviving friends, family and… — William Pryor Copy Share Image
“The obvious pollution occurring in many places - worst of all, in the planned societies- has encouraged the growth of the environmental… — Jacqueline Kasun Copy Share Image
“We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
PEOPLE DIE. This is the fact the world desperately hides from us from birth. Long after you find out the truth about… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“He's Darkness. Unpleasant. I wouldn't trust him. Nor do I trust every mortal I meet. I don't know where evil comes from,… — Leanna Renee Hieber Copy Share Image
We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
The second thing that happened is, DNA analysis is much more sophisticated. All you have to do now is spit in a… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
“In myths, the hero survives. The evil is vanquished. The world is set right. Sometimes there are celebrations, and sometimes there are… — V.E. Schwab Copy Share Image
The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“If I say I do not believe in faeries or elves or trolls, does this imply that I have a set of… — Kelli Jae Baeli Copy Share Image
Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we… — Moby Copy Share Image
“In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In the case of our fair maiden, we have overlooked two very crucial aspects to that myth. On the one hand, none… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Rid yourself of the old myth, if it has been plaguing you, that money is not important. It is important - vitally… — Venita VanCaspel Copy Share Image
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by… — David Watson Copy Share Image
... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
