Myth Quote by Alexander McCall Smith Download Open image ““Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.”” — Alexander McCall Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Myth Reality
“Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Myth is mecessary because reality is so much larger than rationality.” — Rolland Hein 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
“Myths, it transpired, are stronger than anyone could have imagined.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If you are not a myth Whose reality are you? And if you are not reality Whose myth are you?” — Sun Ra Arkestra Copy Share Image
“They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no… — C. G. Jung Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider themselves businessmen… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“She had not made a lot of money, but she had not made a loss, and she had been happy and entertained. That counted… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Men are very sensitive, Mma Makutsi. You would not always think it to look at them, but they are. They do not like you… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“He is a good man, but even a good man can fall for a glamorous woman. That is well known.” “That is very well… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love.… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, ‘You must not go off and visit… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I argue that the Jesus of the Gospels is essentially a myth. The Gospels are largely fiction. They were created around the turn of… — Alvar Ellegård Copy Share Image
Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. — Peter Wilson Copy Share Image
I think the older you get, you start to break down the myth and you get to the dirt of it - and if… — Jena Malone Copy Share Image
Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image