Quotes About Myth

Can truth be found? Is it possible to live with truth? All life-force stems from blindness. It grows from imagined knowledge, in myth taken for faith, and in the substitute myths; in unquestioning acceptance, and in mind-narrowing untruths. Within the human predicament the quest for truth presents an impossible task.

atheism" ... reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogy man. Marx, Letter to 30 November 1842

Most pirates had one eye, one leg and a hook for a hand. I don't know why people feared them. If they were around today they'd be registered disabled and would be entitled to so many benefits they wouldn't have to mess about looking for treasure chests.

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

The man who will be the future of the WWE. He will be right under me. He is the man, he is the myth, he is the legend, soon to be.. he is, Alex Riley.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself. There's no middle man, you know.

Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

You never see an old man eating a Twix

It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.

I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

Men are never brave, are they?

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared!

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.