The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that,… — John P. Walters Copy Share Image
A third myth is that men think that women like guys who are dangerous. As a result, guys will often smoke cigarettes,… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“The loss of that oral tradition and the breakdown of communication between generations had set my family adrift, floating aimlessly without history… — Diane Wilson Copy Share Image
“The myth of quantum consciousness sits well with many whose egos have made it impossible for them to accept the insignificant place… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth… A mother's love isn't cliché,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there… — Benjamin De Casseres Copy Share Image
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as (play). But since the Self… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
“You claim that the evidentiary miracle is present and available, namely, the Koran. You say: 'Whoever denies it, let him produce a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists.… — Clifford A. Pickover Copy Share Image
Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The subjects in my work appear as unidentified ghosts that can't be said to be of this world. I've decided to call… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
Sonia Gandhi and her husband have always been persons I look at with a lot of respect. Of course, one of the… — Luca Cordero di Montezemolo Copy Share Image
“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Camels can go many weeks without drinking anything at all. The notion that they cache water in their humps is pure myth—their… — Michael Benanav Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition,… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“[When asked about his thoughts on gods] I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
![“[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.” quote by Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b8/milan-kundera-120_beauty_kafka-transformed-the-profoundly-antipoe_2458536.jpg)
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