Fact Quote by Michael Shermer Download Open image “Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.” — Michael Shermer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fact Facts Historical Literary Myth Plato
“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
“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
“...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“If ‘myth’ is a slippery term, so is ‘classical’. It is common shorthand for ‘ancient Greek and Roman’. But this shorthand has a history,… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“Plato has given to all posterity the model of a new art form, the model of the novel --which may be described as an… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“According to Dembski, for example, “scientific creationism has prior religious commitments whereas intelligent design does not.” — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Mind is just a word we use to describe neural activity in the brain. No brain, no mind. We know this because if a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I always accepted the libertarian position of minimum regulation in the sale and use of firearms because I placed guns under the beneficial rubric… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be protected. Your… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
“Religion, like science, is only noteworthy when it emphasizes a matter of what is true rather than whose belief is greater or lesser or… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
You basically have a group of four spies who are chosen for a mission they feel for the fact of how competent they are… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we're sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that the Internet has brought together millions of people who trust one another for reasons that are unknown. — Ben Huh Copy Share Image
As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first… — Kate Bosworth Copy Share Image
When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival,… — Olivier Dahan Copy Share Image
