Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Don't let the myths make you believe that women don't support other women. — Bozoma Saint John Copy Share Image
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.” — Peter Burke Copy Share Image
“Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Men are like busses. I mean, you wait for ages and ages, and when one does finally come along you can't get… — Eleanor Prescott Copy Share Image
the more a body tries to explode all the foolish myths that have grown up about Texas by telling the truth, the… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always… — Dr. Amit Abraham Copy Share Image
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“Fanfiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead… — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
The mythos of superheroes is our mythos today. They are American myths. 'Captain America,' 'Iron Man,' 'Hulk' - these are the biggest… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of creation myths: those where life arises out of the mud, and those where life falls from the… — George Dyson Copy Share Image
There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“[Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really… — Aron Ra Copy Share Image
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
“I know now that all people hunger for a noble, unsullied past, that as sure as the black nationalist dreams of a… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Society gives the image of sexual violators as weird, ugly, anti-social, alcoholics. Society gives the impression that violators kidnap children are out… — Rosenna Bakari Copy Share Image
“According to the gospels, Christ healed diseases, cast out devils, rebuked the sea, cured the blind, fed multitudes with five loaves and… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.” — Daikichi Irokawa Copy Share Image
Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?' — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
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