Myth Quotes

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

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.

The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night.

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.

Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

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.

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.

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

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

When you’re living in the moment, you’re living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that’s your reality. Everything else is a myth.

The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

The one man team is a complete and total myth.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

The moment there is imagination there is myth

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood.

I don't believe in the sort of "Eureka!" moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time.

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.

The real truth about a lot of life's mysteries can be explained by science but people don't want to get in bed with science because it's cold. They prefer religion, myth, drama.

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

Well, it's like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got too close to the Sun, to God, the wax melted and he crashed to the ground.

I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one.

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.