Myth Quotes - page 4

Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human. (Frank Herbert)

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There's no such place.

Christopher Moore (author)

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

Jorge Luis Borges

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

C. S. Lewis

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

C. S. Lewis

The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.

Richard Hofstadter

I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.

Anne Fortier

It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not.

Mary Beard

It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.

Norman Davies

i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something.

Rick Riordan

If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers? (Rick Riordan)

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

Sarah Zettel

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

Sarah Zettel

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

Stacy Schiff

The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.

Suzanne Somers

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

Helen Fisher

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

Gregory David Roberts

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

David Levithan

Actually, a myth is a story that is not just not true, but it's a story that is especially true. And I think the myth of Jesus is especially true.

Jay Parini

Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone?

Jennifer Egan

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s. (Jerry Rubin)

What is clear is that the Gospel of Judas has joined the other spectacular discoveries that are exploding the myth of a monolithic Christianity and showing how diverse and fascinating the early Christian movement really was.

Elaine Pagels

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

Kevin Mitnick

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.

Naomi Wolf

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

W. Averell Harriman

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