“A nation without a myth drifts aimlessly throughout history. Myth gives purpose and meaning to the civilisation. Myth makes a people a… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“He breathed in the briny air. In a far less dreamy tone, he asked, “How was Death?” Loki clicked his tongue. “He… — Kaylin Boyd Copy Share Image
All cultures are different. Some commit genocide. Some are uniquely peaceful. Some have enormous hunting festivals or annual stretches when nobody speaks.… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
“For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
In myths and movies, the mentor can play a few roles: they bring the hero a magical gift, teach them how to… — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
In the chummy corridors of the liberal media establishment, no self-satisfying myth is more prevalent than the notion that there are two… — L. Brent Bozell III Copy Share Image
Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Find your myth. As Joseph Campbell observed, "Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“Just the class division of society creates two different, two parallel worlds/antipodes in this very society. And this means yet two polar… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
There is a social stigma attached to ambulance services, mostly because ambulances in India are often used as hearses for carrying the… — Shaffi Mather Copy Share Image
“As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practically everybody by the 'greed', that,… — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its… — Tim Lott Copy Share Image
“There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I think the big myth about habits, and happiness too, is that there's somehow a magic "one size fits all" solution. That,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I… — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
“One of my favourite things to do when I write is to bring a sense of wonder to a normal everyday setting...… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12… — Conan Stevens Copy Share Image
Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Why are you here?" "To fetch the woman I cut from the veil of the rock." “Why did you cut?" "To send… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Our practical faith in progress has ramified and hardened into an ideology -- a secular religion which, like the religions that progress… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by… — Virgil Copy Share Image
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Shamefully, Mexico isn't a country that provides opportunities equally and democratically to everyone. Although there is a myth as well about that,… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
“The battle is a collision of power, of gods themselves: man is only a pawn in these terrible games, or their scene,… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
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