Quotes About Myth

When an idea is so old and so generally believed, it must be true in some way, by which I mean that it is psychologically true.

Myths are first and foremost psychic phenomena that reveal the nature of the soul.

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science. Science works with concepts of averages which are far too general to do justice to the subjective variety of an individual life.

What we are to our inward vision, and what man appears to be sub specie aeternitatis, can only be expressed by way of myth.

I am speaking of those who cannot tolerate the loss of myth and who can neither find a way to a merely exterior world, to the world as seen by science, nor rest satisfied with an intellectual juggling with words, which has nothing whatsoever to do with wisdom.

Los antiguos vivían sus signos porque el mundo aún no se les había vuelto real.

HE CALLED HIMSELF THE LIZARD King. The prostitutes known as lot lizards feared him. More precisely, they feared his legend, the idea of him. None of them who'd ever seen his face up close lived to describe it.

The first man was not a man, Don Javier tells me, entangled in deep laughter. The first man was a woman...

To do real good physics work, you do need absolute solid lengths of time … it needs a lot of concentration … if you have a job administrating anything, you don't have the time. So I have invented another myth for myself: that I'm irresponsible. I'm actively irresponsible. I tell everyone I don't do anything. If anyone asks me to be on a committee for admissions, "no," I tell them: I'm irresponsible.

We know plenty of Ethiopians in London who do not even furnish their flats. What possessions they acquire sit in their cardboard boxes ready for transport. The tower of boxes holding televisions, toaster ovens, microwaves, electric heaters teeters to the left of the door, ready to be shipped at a moment's notice. They commit to nothing. They float on the myth of return.

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Para los más jóvenes aquel apellido sonoro y agudo que oían pronunciar de vez en cuando estaba vagamente ligado a la leyenda de aquellos parajes, a sus historias más antiguas, ciertas o no, y a algunas personas muertas mucho tiempo atrás que antes de abandonar este mundo se encargaron de dejar bien grabado su nombre en la memoria colectiva.

Man's estrangement from the mythical realm and the subsequent shrinking of his existence to the mere factual—that is the major cause of mental illness.

Among the so-called neurotics of our day there are a good many who in other ages would not have been neurotic - that is, divided against themselves. If they had lived in a period and in a milieu in which man was still linked by myth with the world of the ancestors, and thus with nature truly experienced and not merely seen from the outside, they would have been spared this division with themselves.

Believing that others will react as we would is the single most dangerous myth of intervention.

When you stop complaining about time, you cease perpetuating the destructive myth that time is the persecutor and you are its victim. I found

Aren't all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora's box is a story parents read to their children at night," she countered. "That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.

By blood we live, the hot, the cold,To ravage and redeem the world:There is no bloodless myth will hold.

There are two kinds of creation myths: those where life arises out of the mud, and those where life falls from the sky. In this creation myth, computers arose from the mud, and code fell from the sky.

In the fog of history and myth, the American role in championing and underwriting European integration is frequently forgotten, along with the resistance of the Europeans.

Superstitions add texture to life.

Those books made it crystal clear that giving honey to your baby before he was a year old made you a terrible mother. The moment a spoon of honey would touch his lips, the words "Awful Mother" would appear on your forehead, forever branding you as a parenting failure.

She was pretty sure that if you died in the South, you'd have a layover in Atlanta before you reached the afterlife. But

Arland looked at me as if seeing me for the first time. Yes, the princess you were expecting put on her armor and left to kill the dragon. So sorry.