History Quote by David Leadbeater Download Open image ““Euhemerus said mythology was ‘history in disguise’. It”” — David Leadbeater ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths." While Horace… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born of the… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of… — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
“Do you know the difference between mythology and history?’ asked Brahmananda. The lady expressed herself in a shrug. ‘Mythology is a set of lies… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes nothing but… — Modris Eksteins Copy Share Image
“Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you trace them… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
“Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history.” — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.” — Daikichi Irokawa Copy Share Image
“The tremendous historical need of our unsatisfied modern culture, the assembling around one of countless other cultures, the consuming desire for knowledge--what does all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“And it will never change. In the military it’s like—here’s the new threat, same as the old threat. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda we helped snuff out of Afghanistan and Iraq have returned as IS. The Wall Street thieves the world saw disgraced returned as high-frequency traders without spending a single day behind bars.” He shrugged. “There will always be another… — David Leadbeater Copy Share
“One thing about the advent of mobile phones, she reflected, They make loitering around appear so much more authentic. She” — David Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“These governments know much more than they will ever tell or care to spend money locating, because they have most of it tied up… — David Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“In life’s tribunal there were no real judgments, no major prosecutions. Just experience. And emotion. “So” — David Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“War diminished you. It chipped chunks from your soul, took the man and molded him into a darker shadow of his real self. But” — David Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“The members drifted apart, did their own thing for a while, then came together somewhere down the line, in some merciless, dark rat hole… — David Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“Training was everything in the art of fighting, and Drake’s was returning faster than a politician could dodge a key question. Instantly,” — David Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“Alicia sighed. “I remember those days.” “Until Drake tamed you?” Dahl asked innocently. “Torstyyyyy . . .” Alicia said in a warning tone. “Any… — David Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“There’s an old Japanese proverb—to wait for luck is the same as waiting for one’s death. We make our own luck, my old friend.”… — David Leadbeater Copy Share Image
“Kennedy Moore sat staring at her PC screen, seeing nothing at all, and thought about how much life could grind you under its heartless… — David Leadbeater Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
