Quotes About Myth

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.

Bridgeport? Said I. Camelot, Said he.

Australian History: .... does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.

You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.

It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it could have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it maybe that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.

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The principal difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

The Vandal known as Myth always slaughters Reason if she falters.

Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason are concerned both claims are accurate. And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only science.

despite rational objections, technology's failure is overrun by the onslaught of myth.

Songwriting is a mix of fiction and myth. Things are very romanticised. A song is like a film in that you can say anything you want. So there are parts that are based on truth and there are also parts that just sound good or feel good. It's a mixture of the two. It's all imagery. It's not strictly truth.

The addiction to the Soviet myth is as tenacious and difficult to cure as any other addiction.

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

Since long ago all peoples have recognized that the world, apart from its physical meaning, also has a moral one. Yet everywhere the matter has only come to a vague consciousness, which, as it sought expression, clothed itself in all sorts of images and myths. There are religions.

Religions are the children of ignorance, and they do not long survive their mother. - On Religion

The Buddha, Eckhart and I all teach essentially the same, Eckhart within the bounds of his Christian mythology. In Buddhism, these ideas are not encumbered by any such mythology, and are thus simple and clear, to the extent that a religion can be clear. Complete clarity lies with me.

the connection between GDP growth and jobs is a myth.

Nonetheless, phobia about Friday the thirteenth is widespread.

If any link between psychology and the full moon exists, it would seem to be protective.

that no one was volunteering to take Friday the thirteenth.