“Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth… — Brian Godawa Copy Share Image
[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real… — Chris Robinson Copy Share Image
Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the… — Denis Johnston Copy Share Image
It is the world's limitations and the myths that we internalize about ourselves that pushes us to diminish our power and ignore… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
“It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father's side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths,… — Laeta Kalogridis Copy Share Image
“myths reflect centuries of oral tradition in non-literate as well as literate peoples – when it comes to the supernatural, there's no… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“In myths, the hero survives. The evil is vanquished. The world is set right. Sometimes there are celebrations, and sometimes there are… — V.E. Schwab Copy Share Image
Among this country's enduring myths is that success is virtuous, while the wealth by which we measure success is incidental. We tell… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't say that I'm an atheist. I don't like that term, because I think it mirrors the certitude of religion. I… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.” — Bryan Sykes Copy Share Image
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware… — Claude Levi-Strauss 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
Personally I'm more into science and engineering types of things, not so much into testing 'Star Wars' myths. — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
There are plenty of myths out there that are either really expensive to do or incredibly difficult or complicated to execute. — Grant Imahara Copy Share Image
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“The business of stories is not enchantment. The business of stories is not escape. The business of stories is waking up.” — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
“Anachron’s Law: There is no myth which is so irrational that no one will believe it. Anachron’s Corollary: There is no truth… — George Hammond Copy Share Image
By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
One of the ludicrous myths I found in football is that people have got to be given time. Whether it's a year… — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
“For hero-worship often defeats its own ends; the boy who "cannot tell a lie," the boy who kept his finger in the… — Leon Ma. Guerrero 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
Fairy tales are not real. However, myths are the historical notes of those who were much wiser than ourselves. We therefore have… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Racism is a perceptive error, and what you actually have to do is you have to get into spaces where you're meeting… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Organ Donation is a cause I feel strongly about. It's disturbing to see a noble cause like this still being clouded by… — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
My 'Black Panther' run really wasn't about Black Panther. It was about Ross. It was about exploding myths about black superheroes, black… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
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