“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
“There is no one story that will replace the American dream, but stories like this one—and there are thousands—can inform the myth… — Carolyn Baker Copy Share Image
The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we're… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“He carried her over the Owl Creek mountain range without stopping,” he said, quietly this time. “He carried her until he reached… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
“To many, I was myth incarnate, the embodiment of a most superb legend, a fairy tale. Some considered me a monster, a… — Leslye Walton Copy Share Image
“The three sons of Bor had no liking for Ymir... At last they attacked Ymir and killed him. His wounds were like… — Kevin Crossley-Holland Copy Share Image
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I think there's always been a myth that sailors brought in records in their knapsacks as if you could ... in the… — Derek Taylor Copy Share Image
A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
I do believe in the myth of San Francisco and there is a force, a magical kind of thing there. That feeling… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
“Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Creativity is simply the human brain forming new connections between ideas, and we all are engaged in this process every day. The… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
Many people entertain the idea that Christianity,like almost any other religion,is basically a system of beliefs-you know, a set of doctrines or… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
Whiteness itself is artifice, is fiction, is a construction, is narrative, is myth. And I seek to deconstruct all of that, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Schools, the institutions traditionally called upon to correct social inequality, are unsuited to the task; without economic opportunity to follow educational opportunity,… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
“In Pliny I read about the invention of clay modeling. A Sicyonian potter came to Corinth. There his daughter fell in love… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
![“Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to write. Reality: You often need to write in order to have anything to say. Thought comes with writing, and writing may never come if it is postponed until we are satisfied that we have…” quote by Frank Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80e/frank-smith-29214_assertion_thoughts-are-created-in-the-act-of-writi_489595.jpg)
