Quotes About Myth

Tall men are the most romantically successful group on earth, bar none: more successful than rich people, accomplished people and educated people.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.

The devotee of myth is in a way a philosopher, for myth is made up of things that cause wonder. (Metaphysics, I, 982b 18–19)

When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myth.

Norton suddenly recalled the myth of Oceanus, the sea that, the ancients believed, surrounded the Earth.

Ya sé, desde luego, que la Atlántida de Platón nunca existió en realidad. Por esta misma razón, nunca podrá morir. Siempre será un ideal, un sueño de perfección , una meta que inspirará a los hombres en la posteridad.

There was no mistake. The leathery wings, the little horns, the barbed tail - all were there. The most terrible of all legends had come to life, out of the unknown past.

No woman has ever killed a man while he was washing dishes.

Imora Thea Mi Savur

The universal odour of bookshop, closed all night on the mildews of its ranked treasures, brought a past life before him - as is said to happen in drowning. But how, he wondered, entering and taking up a book, and even breathing it in to sustain remembrance, could one ever verify or explode the myth, except by drowning.

God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.

Nothing was sacred, nothing was safe. Privacy in today's civilization was a delusion, a myth. Every citizen was exposed, his deepest secrets laid bare, waiting to be read. ... If one knew where to look, and if one was patient, all the facts were available.

She swiftly disabused us of certain notions acquired at school. America is the land of equal opportunity. All men are brothers. The best things in life are free.

old. Letter eight contains his famous vision of the Beauty and the Beast myth: Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Words often quoted, or paraphrased

Such a series of hammer blows! Mankind, it seemed, was now suddenly really rather—dare one say it?—insignificant. He may not after all have been, as he had eternally supposed, specially created. The Book of Genesis, believed by so many to be Holy Writ, was perhaps no more than the stuff of myth and ancient legend. And now even the continents themselves, long supposed to be the most reliable and unshifting bedrock of our very existence, had become mobile.

oppression is explained by the tendency of the existent to flee from himself by alienating himself in the other that he oppresses for that purpose; this tendency can be found in each individual man today: and the vast majority give in to it; a husband looks for himself in his wife, a lover in his mistress, in the guise of a stone statue; he seeks in her the myth of his virility, his sovereignty, his unmediated reality.

We have seen that in spite of legends, no physiological destiny imposes eternal hostility on the Male and Female.

Few myths have been more advantageous to the ruling master caste than this one: it justifies all privileges and even authorizes taking advantage of them. Men do not have to care about alleviating the suffering and the burdens that are physiologically women's lot since they are intended by Nature; they take this as pretext for increasing the misery of the women's condition-- for example, by denying woman the right to sexual pleasure, or making her work like a beast of burden.

How, indeed, could the myth of Cinderella not keep all its validity? Everything still encourages the young girl to expect fortune and happiness from some Prince Charming rather than to attempt by herself their difficult and uncertain conquest.

Every fairy-tale needs a good old-fashioned villain?

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place. And men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the the Holy Cross.

IOKASTE. So ging das Gerücht und ist noch nicht verstummt.

To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.