Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and… — Robert M. Utley 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
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
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
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
I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the… — Douglas A. Martin 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
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
“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 myth is that if housing prices go up, Americans will be richer. What banks - and behind them, the Federal Reserve… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent.… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! -… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“No follower of Christ knew the shape of the earth. For many centuries this great Peasant of Palestine has been worshiped as… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but… — J. R. R. Tolkien 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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