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When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe. — Madeleine L'Engle
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true… — J.R.R. Tolkien
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life,… — E. M. Forster
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost… — Bertrand Russell
A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at that time -… — Tom Wolfe
This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As… — Diana Wynne Jones
Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous… — C.S. Lewis
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly… — Paulo Freire
What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or… — Michael Ende
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have… — Zadie Smith
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the… — Dorothy Allison
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the… — Michael Shermer
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ… — Stanislaw Lem
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the… — Aldous Huxley
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the… — Joseph Campbell
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will… — Bertrand Russell
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the… — Karen Armstrong
How did you learn all this?" Vic sighed. "See, while you spend all your time making out with Balthazar, and Raquel stays holed up with… — Claudia Gray
Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a home...To be a member of… — Rollo May
The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best… — Malcolm Gladwell
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms… — Jostein Gaarder
I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're gragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the… — Siri Hustvedt
Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it. — Konrad Lorenz
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow… — Hunter S. Thompson

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