It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite… — Weili Dai Copy Share Image
There is a diverse meaning to the lyrics as well. A lot of the stuff I write is from a personal level… — Johan Hegg Copy Share Image
“This story twists the ancient myths we grow up with,” Berger says, “where what the reader knows about the Olympian gods, or… — David Berger Copy Share Image
“The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of… — Ferdinand Cohn Copy Share Image
Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Once every hundred years, two souls are brought together through the veil of time. They are deemed the chosen ones by the… — Mary Morgan Copy Share Image
The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
“Eros mumbled something. "I'm sorry?" said Aphrodite. "Whatwouldjesusdo." "What would Jesus do?" said Aphrodite. "Let me tell you something. Jesus was a… — Marie Phillips Copy Share Image
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
“There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says… — Nancy Garden Copy Share Image
One cannot predict the next mythology any more than one can predict tonight's dream; for a mythology is not an ideology. It… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
I want the Brahmins to realize that the Dravidian people today are very much hating those who cunningly cheated them with absurdities.… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Her uneasy gaze skittered along the length of his arms, which were exposed by his rolled-up shirtsleeves... and stopped at the astonishing… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
As the astronomer rejoices in new knowledge which compels him to give up the dignity of our globe as the centre, the… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
“In order to witness clearly the march of humanity from its inception to the present moment, an understanding of how humankind has… — Roger D. Woodard Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
A person may say I am not much concerned how long I stay in purgatory, provided I may come to eternal life.… — Caesarius of Arles Copy Share Image
Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“The name Eve/Eab/Age stems from the Latin aetas, which is from aevum, “lifetime.” The word aetas is remarkably similar to the name… — Eric Bredesen Copy Share Image
“-’Tell me’, he said, ‘who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one’? -’A happy one, of course.’ -’Wrong. A… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“The period before the deluge was the one of revelation in the Mesopotamian mythology, when the basis of all later knowledge was… — Amar Annus Copy Share Image
Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth Copy Share Image
Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I just always loved mythology, ever since I was a kid. Greek mythology was something I remember learning about in fourth grade,… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
What's most remarkable about the conservative activists who promote a small, hysterical group of conspiracy theorists claiming a Muslim theocracy is the… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
“Our destiny is aligned with our heart's innermost longing, a longing embedded within our soul before birth. This longing is a unique… — Thea Euryphaessa Copy Share Image
For those in whom a local mythology still works, there is an experience both of accord with the social order, and of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
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