Quotes About Myth

In rock music, people have certain assumptions that it makes people more enlightened, and it really doesn't.

We'd like to believe that Americans live longer than most other people in the world. Sadly, that is not the case.

We've been told the same story for so long. We've seen literally 1,000 'Lord of the Rings' movies.

I knew there was no Santa when I was, like, 5.

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

Most of the stuff that parades as drug education in this country is just rubbish with no foundation in evidence.

The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

The press always pick on British fashion, but I don't think that there are more successful young designers than in Paris or Milan. It's all a myth.

And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes. I feel a deep sorrow that my kids will never get to see what I've seen, and their kids will see nothing; there's a deep sadness whenever I look at nature now.

Thus the legend of the 'stab in the back' and the undefeated German Army had become historical truth

The Bible itself is a dynamic text full of poetry, prose, history, law and myth all clashing together in a cacophony of voices. We are presented with a warrior God and a peacemaker, a God of territorial allegiance and a God who transcends all territorial divides, an unchanging God and a God who can be redirected, a God of peace and a God of war, a God who is always watching the world and a God who fails to notice the oppression against Israel in Egypt.

For just as one person's idol is another's icon, so one person's fable is another's parable.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

In tenth and last place comes the conquest of the myth of the rapture of the cognitive person in recent academic research. Bruno Latour is the most important name here. He has also raised subversive demands in political theory for the reinclusion of experts. From

This contrasted with logos, which also meant 'word' but in the sense of a truth which can be argued and maybe changed (as in, 'what's the word on . . .?'). Unlike logoi, which were written in prose, myths were recorded in verse.

?nsanlar?n hayat?nda s?k s?k olan bir ?eye inanmamak, inanmak de?il, inanmamak, izahtan aciz kald???m?z her hadiseyi hurafe sayan bir hurafedir.

Part of the American dream, for example, is to deny that there are class lines drawn through the middle of American society. Each year, however, the widening gap between the 1 percent and the 99 percent turns that persistent American dream into more of a myth. Particularly instructive in this regard is the famous boast by Warren Buffett (quoted by the Marxist theorist Joerg Rieger) that "there is such a thing as class warfare and that his class is winning it."1

The pseudo-scientific myth that all women are naturally predisposed toward sexual restraint and all men toward promiscuity isn't only inaccurate but dangerous, leading directly to the notion that women who differ from that norm are unacceptable, need to be corrected or deserve to be mistreated,' says Zhana Vrangalova, professor of human sexuality at New York University.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

They're only stories," he would say, "What do stories matter?" But he wasn't stupid. He knew as well as Myrddin that in the end stories are all that matter.

We made up our own religions and pretended they came from outside us.

Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien