Behind Quote by Rene Girard Download Open image “The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.” — Rene Girard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Behind Computers Disappears Machine Myth Storytelling
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I think people create MYTH so that they can hide originality of the society. — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
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
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of… — Christopher Vogler Copy Share Image
If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
“There is no culture without a tomb and no tomb without a culture; in the end the tomb is the first and only cultural… — René Girard Copy Share Image
The true Resurrection is based not on the mythical lie of the guilty victim who deserves to die, but on the rectification of that… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
“The good son imitates the father with such passion that father and son become each other's chief stumbling block - a situation the indifferent… — René Girard Copy Share Image
Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
Every time I could escape from Sunday church, I did, from the age of twelve until about thirty. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
I do not read many periodicals, and I have little or no contact with progressive Christians, so I don't really know what goes on… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
“The revolutionaries thought they would be destroying vanity when they destroyed the privileges of the noble. But vanity is like a virulent cancer that… — René Girard Copy Share Image
I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair. — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
“So long as globalization was slow in coming, everyone hoped and prayed that it would come soon. The unity of the world's nations was… — René Girard Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche is a marvelous antidote to all fundamentally anti-Biblical efforts to turn mythology into a kind of Bible, and that is the project of… — René Girard Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home? — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
I'm not the type of player that's going to run in behind or go past three and score. — Peter Crouch Copy Share Image
I hadn't been to drama school. I hadn't been to university and acted there. I had no qualifications behind me. — David Jason Copy Share Image
For girls who want to get their waistline down a little bit and don't have any weights in the house, they can actually use… — Pepa Copy Share Image
My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
I'm not on any social media; I don't even know what things are. I'm so behind the times. — Rosemarie DeWitt Copy Share Image
I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with… — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image