Best Myths Words
337 Myths quotes by 259 unique authors
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Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.
— Erich Fromm
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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
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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
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The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.
— Michel Tournier
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his…
— Rollo May
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Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is…
— Rollo May
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I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.
— Barbra Streisand
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Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're…
— Nahoko Uehashi
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The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its…
— Leo Bogart
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What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of…
— Jeanette Winterson
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While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a…
— M. Scott Peck
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Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of…
— Walker Evans
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We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or…
— May Sarton
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The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it,…
— Alan Watts
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Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts,…
— Joseph Campbell
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The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is…
— D. H. Lawrence
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No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy…
— Zadie Smith
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Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed…
— John Fante
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I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.
— Neil Gaiman
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Myths that need clarification: "No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears." False. It depends on…
— Erma Bombeck
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