Quotes About Myth

Pourtant les analogies entre le récit scientifique et ces mythes sont indéniables... S'agit-il d'une coïncidence ? Ou d'un savoir intuitif ? nous sommes nous memes composés de la poussière du Big Bang. Peut-être portons-nous en nous la mémoire de l'univers ?

Don't go to Casablanca expecting it to be like the film. In fact, if you're not too busy, and your schedule allows it, don't go to Casablanca at all.

Corto Maltese:"L'Eldorado di Raleigh, la Città d'Oro di Orellana, il regno favoloso di Cibola del Coronado... sono fatti della stessa sostanza dei sogni. E' sorprendente vedere uomini di cultura come lei interessarsi a simili storie..." Levi Colombia:"I sogni sono d'oro, la realtà è di piombo...

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

I've obviously spent a lot of time thinking about myth and religion. I've also spent time with things like The Skeptical Inquirer magazine, and Carl Sagan's book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark ; but while I was reading them, I was thinking, "Yes, yes, yes; but don't you need to maintain a core of solid, rock-hard belief to be an atheist in this world?" [ Laughter. ] I think what I really like is the idea of belief itself.

Inde fernut, titidem qui vivere debeat annos, corpre de patrio parvum phenica renasci' It's from Ovid. It means, 'A little phoenix is born anew from the father's body, fated to live the same number of years.

When the Tigress plays, the dragon whips its tail.

Hitler's rise from humble beginnings to 'seize' power by 'triumph of the will' was the stuff of Nazi legend. In fact, political miscalculation by those with regular access to the corridors of power rather than any actions on the part of the Nazi leader played a larger role in placing him in the Chancellor's seat.

The true legends are the broken ones: fragments of histories, tellings, embellishments, edits and re-edits. Truth abhors a narrative.

Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.

The urban myth that carrots are good for your eyesight originated in wartime disinformation, intended to stop the Nazis wondering why the British were getting so good at spotting raiding bombers.

It could be said that the lectures changed the way many people thought about myth, fairy story, and poetry, and even about the relationship of imagination to thought and to language. One of the brilliant but cryptic insights he expressed was: 'To ask what is the origins of stories … is to ask what is the origin of language and of the mind.

Justice this side of heaven is a myth. It's not our job anyway. Real justice belongs to God.

Vampires couldn't scale the stone walls surrounding the house, for the stone was stamped with crosses in honor of St. Heath, who, apparently, had died upon one (although the story was rather muddied, and no one other than her husband's family, the de Lacys, had ever heard of St. Heath, so there was no way to verify its accuracy).

The High Plains settler (myth obscures) a truth that is more complex and less immediately satisfying but embraces, as the stereotype does not, all of what it means to be human.

I think it allows the public to enjoy the thrill of a story without the fear of the reality. The reality is too much to bear, so they detach themselves from it. That's maybe how all myths were born.

Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.

Even a man who is pure in heart, And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, And the moon is full and bright.

New Myths of Feminine Divine

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

This would never happen to Van Damme. Heroes never shit. They only fuck and kill.

Dont you know... I'm the boggyman."-St. Dane

For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.

There is very much a sense of different versions of storytelling within our 'Camelot' - who tells those stories, who creates them, who shifts them.