Every man Quote by William Butler Yeats

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

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

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

— Edith Hamilton

I think a myth is created from truth.

— Mark Lanegan

The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.

— Oscar Isaac

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

Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds,…

— Joseph Campbell

Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some people are…

— Brie Larson

“Into an allegory a man can put only what he already knows; in a myth he puts what he does not yet know and…

— C.S. Lewis

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

— Jean Houston

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth…

— Isaac Asimov

As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to…

— Bryce Courtenay