Myth Quotes

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.

Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth

Choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything.

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.

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.

We've spent now about 150 years trying to convince ourselves that photographs are reliable evidence, some unimpeachable slice of the real world. That was a myth from the very beginning.

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

Well, I really think that shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

You know what, evolution is a myth. ... Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.

The gods have become our diseases.

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.

It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.

Music is our myth of the inner life.

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

It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?

The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.

Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality.

People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself. There's no middle man, you know.

The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.

Christianity is a myth that has been literalised.

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in a weak manner, gentle and tender through the heartbeat of a child.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.