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Myth is, after all, the neverending story. -- Joan D. Vinge
Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. -- Roland Barthes
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
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
Myth is someone else's religion. -- Caroline Llewellyn
Myth is the nothing that is all. -- Fernando Pessoa
Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Myth and tool mutually constitute each other. -- Donna J. Haraway
Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful. -- Jeff Feuerzeig
Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us. -- Dustin Hoffman
Myth is the public dream, and dream is the private myth. -- Joseph Campbell
Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. -- Carl Jung
Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter. -- Maya Deren
Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches. -- Roberto Calasso
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words. -- Ananda Coomaraswamy
Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy. -- Ted Malloch
Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood. -- Alfred Rosenberg
Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.... -- Joseph Campbell
Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify. -- Karen Russell
Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms. -- Rudolf Bultmann
It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973]. -- Hershel Shanks
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. -- Joseph Campbell
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. -- Joseph Campbell
Myth: Vampires eat only raw meat or drink blood.Truth: Why would we do that when there's chocolate in the world? -- Kimberly Pauley
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. -- Rollo May
(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
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately. -- Robert Bly
The realms of the gods and demons - heaven, purgatory, hell - are of the substance of dreams. Myth, in this view, is the dream of the world. -- Joseph Campbell
Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth. -- Elizabeth Janeway
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. -- William Butler Yeats
I drag my myth around with me. -- Orson Welles
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. -- Joseph Campbell
Myth is what we call other people's religion. -- Joseph Campbell
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. -- George Orwell
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. -- Mary Augusta Ward
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. -- Joseph Campbell
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. -- James Kern Feibleman
From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality. -- Leon Trotsky
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. -- Robert Penn Warren
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then. -- John Bacon
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them. -- Edith Hamilton
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. -- Alan Watts
I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you. -- Ben Mendelsohn
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in. -- Jeff Bridges
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. -- Greil Marcus
If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. -- Ray Bradbury
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things. -- Janis Joplin
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
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing. -- Conor Oberst
I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music. -- Lars von Trier
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. -- Wallace Stevens
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are. -- Baz Luhrmann
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
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. -- Richard Dawkins
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence. -- Jack Zipes
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. -- Naomi Wolf
The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't. -- David Miliband
I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it. -- David Lynch
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. -- Jean Cocteau
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. -- Robert Penn Warren
I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group. -- Yoko Ono
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. -- Italo Calvino
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. -- Robert Fulghum
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
This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity. -- Matt Taibbi
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. -- Eugene Ionesco
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality. -- Steven Weber
You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox. -- Deepak Chopra
While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter of the persistent shared madness in everyday life. It's as if collective mental illness doesn't exist except in the vernacular and in contemporary folk myth, where it remains trapped and politically useless. -- Michael Leunig
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final. -- Hunter S. Thompson
We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I think there's something to be said for living your life very mindful of the fact that you're going to die because I think you carry yourself differently. It doesn't have to be this big, negative bummer. -- Steve Earle
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. -- Chief Seattle
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. -- Slavoj Zizek
Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth. -- Annie Besant
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Jackie Chan is a myth. -- Jackie Chan
Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, -- Michael Tsarion
In the beginning was the myth. -- Hermann Hesse
The natural-born investor is a myth. -- Peter Lynch
Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth. -- Peter Medawar
Plato wove historical fact into literary myth. -- Michael Shermer
When gossip grows old it becomes myth. -- Bill Vaughan
Conscience is better served by a myth. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The moment there is imagination there is myth -- Camille Paglia
Christianity is a myth that has been literalised. -- Timothy Freke
I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science. -- Timothy Leary
Music is our myth of the inner life ... -- Susanne Katherina Langer
All things fade and quickly turn to myth. -- Marcus Aurelius
American public policy is run on a myth. -- Richard Lamm
When gossip gets old it becomes a myth. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I think a myth is created from truth. -- Mark Lanegan
The myth of the first world is that -- Karen Tei Yamashita
Now is the time to become a myth. -- Diane von Furstenberg
The first myth of management is that it exists. -- Robert Heller
Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth. -- Chris Matakas
Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth -- Francoise Giroud
When myth meets myth, the collision is very real. -- Bill Vaughan
Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream. -- Joseph Campbell
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents -- Aristotle
The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. -- Henry A. Wallace
It has served us well, this myth of Christ. -- Pope Leo X
There is at least one truth in every myth. -- Suzy Kassem
A myth is a lie that conveys a truth. -- C. S. Lewis
History is a myth that men agree to believe. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness. -- Phil Zuckerman
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth. -- Marlon Brando
Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced. -- Steven T. Katz
Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype. -- Norman Spinrad
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born... -- Warren G. Bennis
THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope. -- Laird Barron
We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism. -- Lisa Ling
The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me. -- Brigitte Bardot
A myth doesn't have to be real to be true. -- Joseph Campbell

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