Quotes About Myth

To sum up: 1) There is no external historical confirmation for the Jesus story outside of the New Testament. 2) The New Testament accounts are internally contradictory. 3) There are many other plausible explanations for the origin of the myth that do not require us to distort or destroy the natural worldview. 4) The miracle reports make the story highly suspect.

An idea does not need to be true in order to be believed, and the same could be asked about any other myth: Santa Claus, William Tell or Zeus.

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.

It's the conflict between Apollo and Dionysus—a famous dilemma in mythology. It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

It seemed Eve's bite from the apple of knowledge was a debt women were doomed to pay for eternity.

Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up... all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world. the truth, no doubt, was somewhere in the middle.

rational mind had always justified these accounts as part of the myth. They were simply the result of man's greatest weakness – his need for proof. Miracles were nothing but stories we all clung to because we wished they were true. And

found it deeply disturbing when a recent poll revealed that one half of my countrymen believe quite literally that Adam and Eve existed—that an all-powerful God created two fully formed human beings who single-handedly populated the entire planet, generating all the diverse races, with none of the inherent problems of inbreeding.

IN THE BEGINNING, MAN CREATED GOD.

Gods have no gender.

From out of the brain flowed a stream of religious images—God reaching out to infuse Adam with life, Prometheus crafting a primordial human out of mud, Brahma creating humans from different parts of his own body, an African god parting the clouds and lowering two humans to earth, a Norse god fashioning a man and a woman out of driftwood.

En la Antártida no hay osos polares —continuó Tolland—. De manera que la llamaron Anti-arktos.

What is history, but a fable agreed upon?' Ã¢â'¬Â He smiled. "By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account." Sophie

knocking on wood" for luck. Robert, unless you're a closet Druid who still raps on trees to wake them up, please leave that ignorant superstition in the past where it belongs!

History is but a fable agreed upon

Por un instante recordó el antiguo mito de Dédalo: el muchacho recorrió el laberinto del Minotauro con una mano pegada al muro, pues le habían garantizado que, si no dejaba de mantener contacto con él, encontraría la salida.

Ce soart? va avea condiÈ›ia omeneasc? dac? marile mistere ale vieÈ›ii vor fi în sfârÈ™it elucidate? Ce se va întâmpla când acele convingeri pe care le accept?m exclusiv pe baza credinÈ›ei... vor fi dovedite categoric ca fiind reale? Sau, dimpotriv?, ca fiind doar un mit? Am putea spune c? unele întreb?ri ar fi mai bine s? r?mân? f?r? de r?spuns.

As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?'... By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

To a friend, in an unguarded moment, he [Maxim Gorky, 1932] declared his ambition: simply to portray the world and man as they were, without the myth of love, 'repudiating noting, praising nothing'; repudiation was unjust, while praise was premature—'for we live in chaos and ourselves are fragments of chaos.' He compared his desire with Einstein, 'trying to alter radically our representation of the universe.

To a friend, in an unguarded moment, he [Maxim Gorky, 1932] declared his ambition: simply to portray the world and man as they were, without the myth of love, 'repudiating nothing, praising nothing'; repudiation was unjust, while praise was premature—'for we live in chaos and ourselves are fragments of chaos.' He compared his desire with Einstein, 'trying to alter radically our representation of the universe.

The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and precognition, in demons and demigods and resurrection and reincarnation and ghosts and messiahs and so many other categories of almost-but-not-quite satisfying bullshit.

Later, when the battles are won and the world is theirs, I will tell them about her. I will sing to them of Siri.