Logic Quote by Irwin Edman

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who…

— Denis Johnston

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“myth” in this strict sense is a story that purports to be in some sense “historical” and that encapsulates and reinforces the strongly held…

— N.T. Wright

No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men…

— Henry George

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— David Mitchell

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto a cosmological…

— Robert Bringhurst

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

— Italo Calvino

I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers like Philip…

— Marina Warner

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe…

— Jacques Lacan

In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the…

— Edgar Allan Poe