|
|
| Quote for category - myth |
|
|
|
Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
- in myth
|
|
|
|
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
- in myth
|
|
|
|
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- in myth
|
|
|
|
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 --i t
is, rather, a light by which we may see -- and what we see is life.
- 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.
- in myth
|
|
|
|
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.
- in myth
|
|
|
|
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw
into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
- in myth
|
|
|
|
As a rule the myth is no explanation of the origin of the ritual to any one who does not believe it to be a narrative of real
occurrences, and the boldest mythologist will not believe that.
- 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.
- in myth
|
|
|
|
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
- in myth
|
|
|
|
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
- in myth
|
|
|
|
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent,
persuasive and unrealistic
- in myth
|
|
|
|
The shaping of deeply felt values into meaningful, apposite form, is present in all communities, and will find some means of
expressions among all.
- in myth
|
|
|
|
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.
- in myth
|
|
|
|
I am not a myth.
- in myth
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
