Quotes About Myth

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

All great novels are great fairy tales.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

History is written by those who hang heroes.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant