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Myths Quotes by Rollo May
- A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
- Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways…
- It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
More Myths Quotes
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. — Ansel Adams
- Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting… — Lionel Blue
- If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. — Ray Bradbury
- Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow… — William J. Brennan
- Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in. — Jeff Bridges
- I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there. — Madeleine Albright
- Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. — Joseph Campbell
- Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to… — Jean Cocteau
- Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets… — Thomas Aquinas
- Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not. — Richard Dawkins
- When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,… — Robert Green Ingersoll