Quotes About Myth

Contrary to myth, for instance, intrinsic physical characteristics only rarely interfere with the capacity to give birth. In other words, your pelvis is probably big enough for vaginal birth. Nearly every woman's is. Mental attitudes and emotions, on the other hand, interfere with the ability to give birth far more than is generally understood.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

We must not be taken in by the myth of youth, the unending propaganda to the effect that young men are younger than old men; that they are better looking; that they are slimmer, stronger and more athletic; that they can hold a girl in more romantic fashion and speak more sweetly.

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

fama de tortuoso.

En el mito hebreo de Adán y Eva, el pecado que cometieron es el de adquirir conocimiento (al comer el fruto del árbol del conocimiento del bien y del mal: es decir el conocimiento de todo) y por ello fueron expulsados del Edén y, según los teólogos cristianos, infectaron a toda la Humanidad con el «pecado original».

En los mitos griegos, estaba el titán, o Prometeo, que suministró el fuego (y por consiguiente tecnología) a los seres humanos y por ello fue terriblemente castigado por el enfurecido Zeus, que era el dios jefe.

He lives in the past. He is a dreamer of ancient times, or rather, of the myths of what ancient times used to be. Such men are harmless in themselves, but their queer lack of realism makes them fools for others.

Childhood is a naturally unhappy period of our existence, Lillian. It was Walt Disney who invented the notion that it has to be happy, simply to make money.

El cuento de que los niños merecen felicidad lo inventó Walt Disney para ganar plata.

el Viejo Pascuero nunca existió, eran los padres quienes compraban los regalos de Navidad.

De Atahualpa se decía que tenía miles de doncellas en su serrallo y una multitud incalculable de esclavos

Los soldados contaban que en los vericuetos de la cordillera existía la afamada Ciudad de los Césares, entera de oro y piedras preciosas, defendida por bellas amazonas, es decir, el mismo mito de El Dorado, pero Pedro de Valdivia, hombre práctico, no perdió tiempo ni gente buscándola.

Una fábula bien contada suele tener un poderoso efecto afrodisiaco.

porque el alcohol se acompañaba con dosis masivas de aspirinas. se creía que mataba el virus.

One of the most tenacious myths of modern military history is that of German military omnicompetence. Even the staunchest critics prefer to believe that military disasters happen by design, rather than to imagine that structural dysfunction, or just plain mistakes, could have riddled the premier institution of the Kaiserreich. But that was precisely what was so embarrassing about the war in SWA: it displayed German military incompetence.

There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.

The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times.

I've never had a zombie eat a brain! I don't know where that comes from. Who says zombies eat brains?

The greatest American superstition is belief in facts.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his 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.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

It has been die providence of nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one.