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• I am not a myth.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myth, Fame

• Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Tags in Myth

• If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Tags in Myth

• Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Tags in Myth

• The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Myth

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

  Alan Wilson Watts

  Tags in Myth

• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — myth is more potent than history — dreams are more powerful than facts — hope always triumphs over experience — laughter is the cure for grief — love is stronger than death.

  Robert Lee Fulghum

  Topics in Belief, Death, Experience, Grief, History, Knowledge, Life, Love

  Tags in Myth, Facts, Hope, Imagination

• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Tags in Myth

• It is, therefore, a mistake to regard myth as an inferior mode of thought, which can be cast aside when human beings have attained the age of reason. Mythology is not an early attempt at history, and does not claim that its tales are objective fact. Like a novel, an opera or a ballet, myth is make-believe; it is a game that transfigures our fragmented, tragic world, and helps us to glimpse new possibilities by asking ‘what if?’ — a question which has also provoked some of our most important discoveries in philosophy, science and technology.

  Karen Armstrong

  Tags in Myth

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

  Irwin Edman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myth, Reason

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

  James Feibleman

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Myth

• In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people… and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

  William Robertson Smith

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Myth

• The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers.

  Brenda Peterson

  Topics in Nature, Religion

  Tags in Now, Interdependence, Myth, Simplicity

• The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Myth, Effectiveness

• History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Topics in History, Truth

  Tags in Myth

• What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires — desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

  Unknown

  Topics in Belief, Truth

  Tags in Illusions, Myth, Acceptance

• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic

  John F. Kennedy

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Myth, Lying

• Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Belief, Truth

  Tags in Myth

• Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

  Brad Holland

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Myth