Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and… — Joseph Campbell
In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks. — Salman Rushdie
The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting. — Ivan Illich
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. — Erich Fromm
If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness… — Christopher McDougall
The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the… — Eric Voegelin
The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality. — David Denby
Being here really is just the invitation to rest as Being. There is nothing you have to do. It is not an invitation to become.… — Mooji
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of… — Janet Frame
If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass… — Michelle Alexander
Today a new faith is awakening — the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divine… — Alfred Rosenberg
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing. — Anne Carson
The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories. — Michel Tournier
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form. — John Granger
A myth is a fantasy, a preferred lie, a foundational story, a hypnotic trance, an identity game, a virtual reality, one that can be either… — Ginette Paris
Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and ignorance as to… — Ron Paul
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the… — Joseph Campbell
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this… — Richard Dawkins
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In… — Anne Carson
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender… — Diane Wakoski
If you live with the myths in your mind, you will find yourself always in mythological situations. They cover everything that can happen to you.… — Joseph Campbell
When animals do something noble we say they are behaving ‘like humans’. When humans do something disgusting we say they are behaving ‘like animals’. Clumsy… — Philip Wollen
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Unless they can pass the same test that immigrants must pass to become citizens, people shouldnt be allowed to vote. The idea that there is… — Charley Reese
The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift. — Luke Davies

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