Appearance Quote by Epicurus

We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we…

— Marlon Brando

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

— Roland Barthes

There is something feeble, and a little contemptible, about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.…

— Bertrand Russell

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he…

— Bertrand Russell

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

— Starhawk

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

— David Mitchell

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.…

— Bertrand Russell

“A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension... A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a…

— Brian Godawa

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.

— Rachel Kushner

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what…

— Talcott Parsons

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

— C. S. Lewis

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

— Mark Rothko