Myth Quotes

992 Myth quotes by 711 unique authors

Myth is the nothing that is all. — Fernando Pessoa
For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing.… — Jacques Audiard
It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is… — Doris Lessing
God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name.… — Betty Williams
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather… — Bill Gates
Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained… — Unknown Author
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and… — Jerry Garcia
The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization… — C.S. Lewis
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which… — Rudolf Bultmann
The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and… — Wilfred Owen
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable.… — William Lane Craig
My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether... — Nikola Tesla
But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't… — William Peter Blatty
But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always… — Zadie Smith
The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only… — Naomi Wolf
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching… — Rose Macaulay
At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which I likened my… — Heather Hart
I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order… — Daniel Dennett
Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free… — Emma Goldman
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. — Frank Herbert
Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of… — F. F. Bruce
No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a… — Phyllis Schlafly
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of… — Nelson Algren

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