Quotes About Myth

I read the other day in a book by a fashionable essayist that ghosts went out when electric light came in. What nonsense!

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Roosevelt followed it8 with a quirky essay in The Outlook entitled "Dante and the Bowery," arguing that literary stylists had grown too precious in eschewing contemporary imagery. There was as much epic grandeur and poignant example to be found in modern life, he suggested, as there was in Greek myth, or for that matter, thirteenth-century cosmology.

When history gives out, fiction takes over.

I always thought it was a myth about electric eels having enough of a charge to kill someone." "It's no myth. I've studied up on it for this assignment. The electrophorus electricus grows to a length of eight or ten feet, and weighs perhaps as much as ninety pounds.

Control and certainty are myths.

Humans are needy by design. Will we abandon the myth of independence and seek God?

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

Objective reality, the world view produced by the spirit of scientific inquiry, is the myth of our time.

El mito es reflejo de la realidad".

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

some things were just meant to be good stories

At a university where self-regard flows like mother's milk through the hallways, Gerschenkron was a mythic figure. He

Se è estremamente improbabile, infatti, che esista qualcosa di soprannaturale, è certo altrettanto difficile dimostrare che il soprannaturale non esiste. Gli eventi naturali dell'esistenza e quelli inesplicabili sembrano in realtà combinarsi in un unico mitico processo, che costituisce il vero e proprio spettacolo del mondo. Comunque, negare l'esistenza dell'ignoto non è più legittimo che farne l'oggetto di un atto di fede.

I tell myself and the officers I train the LANFWM principle, which is, Life Ain't No Fucking Western Movie.

The story of declining school quality across the twentieth century is, for the most part, a fable," says social scientist Richard Rothstein, whose book The Way We Were? cites a series of similar attacks on American education, moving backward one decade at a time.3 Each generation invokes the good old days, during which, we discover, people had been doing exactly the same thing.

This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.

Anyone who's watched 'The Hunger Games', or female archers, knows that that is an absolutely physiologically ridiculous idea.

Jesus walking on water is an allegory, not fluid mechanics. God destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is a warning, not a historical battle. Doubting Thomas is an example, not a person. The story of Noah, with all of its scientific and historical impossibilities, can be read the same way.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older.

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart.