Myth Quotes - page 2

All things fade and quickly turn to myth. (Marcus Aurelius)
[I am] dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times. View quote
Mark Rothko
It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night. View quote
Jack Kerouac
A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created in defense of the class of the perceiver. View quote
Paulo Freire
In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature. View quote
Paulo Freire
Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of the myth of natural harmony-all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds (all structures well designed for a definite purpose in this case). It is, indeed, the vision of foolish Dr. Pangloss, so vividly satirized by Voltaire in Candide-the world is not necessarily good, but it is the best we could possibly have. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
The old knowledge had been difficult but not distressing. It had been all paradox and myth, and it had made sense. The new knowledge was all fact and reason, and it made no sense. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God's truth, the universe at once began to exist. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Conscience is better served by a myth. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. (V. S. Pritchett)
Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. View quote
Paul Ricœur
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. View quote
Paul Ricœur
Our culture has a universal myth in which we see emotion as more complex and obscure than intellect. Indeed, emotion might be "deeper" in some sense of prior evolution, but this need not make it harder to understand; in fact, I think today we actually know much more about emotion than about reason. View quote
Marvin Minsky
The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day. View quote
Diana Wynne Jones
Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending Emily Dickinson stand alone above women poets, because poetry's mystical energies are ruled by a hierach requiring the sexual subordination of her petitioners. Women have achieved more as novelists than as poets because the social novel operates outside the ancient marriage of myth and eroticism. View quote
Camille Paglia
In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day. View quote
Hermann Hesse
The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous - poets and honeymooners. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. (Joseph Campbell)
Myth is what we call other people's religion. View quote
Joseph Campbell
The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair. View quote
Oscar Wilde