Motivational Quote by Marvin Bell Download Open image “The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking” — Marvin Bell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Motivational Privilege War
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves. — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Reading myth as crystallizing historical fact was a common approach in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is an approach to myth… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Mythologies are violent things, and to be true to them, you have to go to primal territory. — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
“The "I" in the poem is not you but someone who knows a lot about you.” — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
Much of our lives involves the word “no.” In school we are mostly told, “Don't do it this way. Do it that way.” But… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
“You are not beautiful, exactly. You are beautiful, inexactly. You let a weed grow by the mulberry and a mulberry grow by the house.… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves.… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
“Without passion and satisfaction, there is nothing to make happiness last.” — ANIKOR Daniel Copy Share Image
Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how… — Anton Zeilinger Copy Share Image
