Quotes About Myth

Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

If the law can't protect us, then I'm dedicated to a myth, and I better wake up.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

Belief in the liberating power of knowledge has become the ruling illusion of modern humankind. Most want to believe that some kind of explanation or understanding will deliver them from their conflicts. Yet being divided from yourself goes with being self-aware. This is the truth in the Genesis myth: the Fall is not an event at the beginning of history but the intrinsic condition of self-conscious beings.

Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

the mythical bird that set fire to itself and rose anew from the ashes every five hundred years;

One set depicted the History of Aeneas, another the Judgment of Paris

Well, how could he refuse? Besides, Jack's mom and Mrs. Oastler had no idea how the myth of his writing something, which Emma had so presciently set in motion, was now a reality.

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

Nothing in modern attitudes is believed more to signify exceptional intelligence than association with large pools of money. Only immediate experience with those so situated denies the myth.

In China the wind was originally regarded as a demon that caused illness

Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.

The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth.

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

At least, I thought in those early days, once I cast a spell, I would not have to learn it again. But even that was not true.

But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips.

On her chest shone her famous aigis, leather armor fringed with golden threads. It was said to be made from the skin of a Titan that she had flayed and tanned herself.

His eyes opened. "Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.

For millennia there have been men who react with horror and disgust to women's independence, men who desire women yet hate them, and who take refuge in fantasies of purity and control. What would it be like to live with such a man as your husband? There are too many today who could answer that. But that is the mark of a good source myth; it is water so wide it can reach across centuries. I hope you enjoyed the swim.