Ancient Quote by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Download Open image “Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.” — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Gossip Myth Storytelling
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
The success of Heine -- to become a world-famous 'unknown poet.' — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
“Even the masochists tell everything when tortured. From sheer gratitude.” — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
