Quotes About Myth

We are not the vampires in your horror stories, the walking dead, for God's sake.

Past and history are not the same. Past is what happened. It consists of events that affected the patient's self, some of which he can remember, but the most he is having trouble remembering. History is transforming the past to a story that the person tells himself. Sometimes, the story stems from the past, but even the most sincere patient's history is more like a myth. (Translated from the Hebrew edition).

Image and perception are everything, and those who possess them have the ability to determine their own myth, to be taken at their own valuation.

The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).

His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and yet is wildly eager for it. To reassure himself, he converts it into epic myth as fast as it happens. He is forever play-acting.

Why do I prefer boys? Because of their shape and their voices and their smell and the way they move. And boys can be so romantic. I can put them into my myth and fall in love with them.

All killer whales are named Kevin. You knew that, right?

The devil does not exist. I do not believe he exists. Nor do I believe the old saying that the devil's greatest accomplishment was to convince the majority of mankind that he does not exist. For me Satan and a literal hell are fables born of Christianity's desire to control humanity by increasing its fear of death. After all, I'm five thousands years old and I've never met Satan.

For me, Satan and a literal hell are fables born of Christianity's desire to control humanity by increasing its fear of death.

They have forgotten much of what they once knew. They have even lost the secret of their origin. But I will give it to you, and this will give you a powerful advantage over them. Do you know the legend of the Hydra?

intentioned myth.

Heroes tend to gain improbable strength when their tale is told over and over again.

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.

Superstition brings bad luck.

Dreams of flying have haunted the collective imagination since time immemorial.

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Superstition brings bad luck. —Raymond Smullyan, 5000 B.C., 1.3.8

Todos hemos experimentado un saludable temor ante ogros y hombres lobo, pero de mayores hemos aprendido a no tenerles miedo a las manzanas envenenadas sino al agujero de ozono, y de pequeñines todos hemos creído que los niños los traía la cigüeña, pero esto no nos ha impedido de mayores adoptar un sistema más adecuado (y agradable) para producirlos.

Let us forget for a moment that some of these false tales produced positive effects, while others produced horror and shame. All created something, for better or worse. Nothing in their success is inexplicable. What represents a problem is rather the way they managed to replace other tales that today we consider true.

In reality, myth was that which took the place of analysis in former times. … It showed that there was the universe, but one knew that there was also something else. One knew that something stronger than the social existed.

It was said of him that he had once been for a short time in Bedlam; they had done him the honour to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet. This story was probably not true; we have all to submit to some such legend about us.

Why don't you sparkle?" -"Because I live in the real world, where vampires burst into flames.

There was a word from a myth: sathaz . It was the desire to possess that which can never be yours. It meant senseless, hopeless yearning, the way a gutter child might dream of being king, and it came from the tale of the man who loved the moon.