Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in. — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil. — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world… — Stephen H. Furrer Copy Share Image
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
Myths have a certain staying power because, really, they are aspirational - not always who we are, but always who we want… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm no longer religious, but the Bible fascinates me. Hardly anyone reads it anymore, but it's got everything: it's a book of… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
“There's no difference between pulp fiction and highbrow fiction, one is as good as the other, the only difference is the aura… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“That so many of us are still dying on account of ancient myths is as bewildering as it is horrible and our… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Myths and legends, either about divinities or the formation and history of peoples and races, began to look like pictures on a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“It is one thing for modern educated people to feel they must believe these old stories as factual when science proves otherwise.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence says that myths are "inexhaustible" because they are symbols of heart mysteries. That is, they can't be exhausted - they… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“For man seems to be unable to live without myth, without the belief that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Her sister Lea had an ancient book of myths and legends, and there was all kinds of info in there - of… — Bethany Lovell Copy Share Image
“The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance. — Arjuna Ardagh Copy Share Image
If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.” — Lynn Crilly Copy Share Image
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality. — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
We have to educate our communities about the immigration system and dispel the myths that have been fed to us. Immigration isn't… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“The Rape of Europa. Both the myth and the picture only prove the power of beauty to turn anyone into a beast.” — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
The pro-gun propaganda peddled by the National Rifle Association feeds myths about gun ownership, and these myths arguably perpetuate the suffering of… — Emma Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that. — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes -… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
“Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis – they are nothing but the perpetuation of chance events supported by myths.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you… — Suetonius Copy Share Image
