quotes about Myth
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To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood.
-- Alfred RosenbergSource : "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 161, 1930.
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No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
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Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
-- Ananda CoomaraswamySource : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.273, World Wisdom, Inc
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
-- Anne CarsonSource : "Red Doc>". Book by Anne Carson, statement on a jacket copy, therumpus.net. 2013.
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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 gets my adrenaline going.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.
-- Barack Obama -
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The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.
-- Bob Kane -
It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
-- Bob Kane -
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
-- Brené Brown -
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Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.
-- Bryan SykesSource : Bryan Sykes (2007). “Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company
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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 moment there is imagination there is myth
-- Camille Paglia -
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One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.
-- Christopher Bond -
We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.
-- Debora Spar -
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Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.
-- Diana TrillingSource : Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt
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It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.
-- Dianne Feinstein -
Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.
-- Donna J. Haraway -
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Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
-- Dustin Hoffman -
There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
-- Edward ZwickSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.
-- Eric ChaissonSource : Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.418, Columbia University Press
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Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth
-- Francoise GiroudSource : Françoise Giroud, Claude Glayman (1974). “I Give You My Word”
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The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.
-- Frank Waters -
Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.
-- Gilbert Ryle -
To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.
-- Gilbert RyleSource : 'The Concept of Mind' (1949) introduction
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A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.
-- Gloria Naylor -
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
-- Greil MarcusSource : Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.110, Penguin
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The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
-- Irwin EdmanSource : Irwin Edman (1968). “The Uses of Philosophy: An Irwin Edman Reader”
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History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.
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Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.
-- James K. A. SmithSource : James K. A. Smith (2006). “Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church”, p.68, Baker Academic
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Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
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I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.
-- Jerry Rubin -
There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.
-- Jessica Lange -
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
-- John Major -
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There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery.
-- John Powell -
A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.
-- Joseph Campbell -
Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.
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Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.
-- Joseph Campbell -
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I don't care what people's myths are about me.
-- Kelly Lynch -
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
-- Kent McCord -
The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.
-- Libby LarsenSource : "Intimate Voices" by Alex Ross, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2001.
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The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.
-- Luke DaviesSource : Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.7, Penguin
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.
-- Margaret HalseySource : Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”
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There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.
-- Marianne Faithfull -
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I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.
-- Marilyn Quayle -
(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.
-- Mark Rothko -
Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.
-- Marlon Brando -
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
-- Meridel Le SueurSource : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.66, Feminist Press at CUNY
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Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths.
-- Michael Tsarion -
The writer's function is to prevent myths turning into allegories.
-- Michel Tournier -
People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth
-- Milla Jovovich -
The bearers of fables are very welcome.
-- Monique WittigSource : Monique Wittig (2007). “Les Guerilleres”, p.51, University of Illinois Press
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The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.
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Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.
-- Natalie AngierSource : Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.377, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
-- Natalie Goldberg -
All systems require myths for their longevity.
-- Nikki Giovanni -
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Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
-- Norman Spinrad -
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
-- Octavio Paz -
The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another
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Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.
-- Pat Summitt -
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But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
-- Paul RicoeurSource : Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.391, Northwestern University Press
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The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.
-- Peter Brook -
The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
-- Rainer Werner Fassbinder -
Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
-- Ransom RiggsSource : Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.99, Quirk Books
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to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.
-- Riane Eisler -
American public policy is run on a myth.
-- Richard LammSource : "Lamm on the Line". Interview with Peter Doskoch, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1996.
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You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
-- Rick SantelliSource : "CNBC's Santelli Schools NYT's Friedman in Ponzi Schemes and Social Security". www.newsbusters.org. September 8, 2011.
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The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.
-- Robert LipsyteSource : Robert Lipsyte (1975). “Sportsworld: an American dreamland”, Crown
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In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
-- Samuel R. Delany -
Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?
-- Scott Steiner -
One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth
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History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.
-- Sondre Lerche -
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And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.
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When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.
-- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -
Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.
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But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
-- Stanley Crouch -
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Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
-- Stephen King -
Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.
-- Steven T. Katz -
Music is our myth of the inner life ...
-- Susanne Katherina Langer -
There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.
-- Suzy Kassem -
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You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.
-- Ta-Nehisi Coates -
There is a whole myth about super people. That super people can do everything and they do it on their own.
-- Therese ReinSource : "Therese Rein - passionate advocate for the disabled". Interview with Kerry O'Brien, www.abc.net.au. October 28, 2009.
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Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.
-- Timothy Freke -
I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.
-- Timothy Leary -
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We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.
-- Vivek Wadhwa -
There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
-- W. Averell Harriman -
I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
-- Wally Lamb -