Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Yet the idea that all humans are equal is also a myth. In what sense do all humans equal one another?” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“All myths are stories, but not all stories are myths: among stories, myths hold a special place.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We tell myths over and over again, lest we forget who we are, lest we not understand that these tales take us… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
In myths the warrant of grace was the acceptance of sacrifice; it is this acceptance that love, the re-enactment of sacrifice, beseeches… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“The communist world, it may be noted, has one big myth (which we call an illusion, in the vain hope that our… — Carl Gustav Jung Copy Share Image
“Rising up into the air, they took to the sky and flew. From west and beyond west, into the wind and through… — Pat O'Shea Copy Share Image
I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
“Heaven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Let me tell you about those convents. All that crap about extending the pinkie finger while sipping tea is a myth. Convent… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
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