Quotes About Myths

A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?

The typical conservative Roman was far too practical for that. If you didn't know by age five that the gods were made-up creatures and the myths invented stories, then you were a fool.

she had discovered that ageing and what they called maturity were myths, that all the years did was disqualify you from various pleasures, one by one.

There were all sorts of myths and legends surrounding the lake. I mean, we're Indians, and we like to make up shit about lakes, you know?

They were myths I once believed, and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.

Myths aren't fairy tales or legends—they're an honest attempt to explain mysteries...

to see her not merely as a bundle of stereotypes or as a convenient and tenuously linked series of myths, but as a whole woman whose choices added up and whose decisions made sense.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

Asleep in lap of legends old.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Snorri sets Thor in that environment; that is, he tells us that there was a historical figure whom the Nordic peoples called Thor who lived before Christ was born and who performed historical acts (it is important to remember that berserks and dragons were not as fantastic to medieval historians as they seem to us) that look very much like some of the myths about Thor that later were to be told by the Nordic peoples.

Lies are stories.

Legends, myths, miracles, and symbols: a far cry from the practical and precise hardheaded world Scotland and the Scots had inhabited since the Act of Union.

As I began to give interviews and talks about my book "They Take Our Jobs!" And 20 Other Myths about Immigration, published in 2007, I became more and more convinced that a key, central issue that's hampering those of us who support immigrant rights is the absence of a basic, fundamental ability to say "immigrant rights are human rights." Immigration simply should not be illegal. No politician or talk-show commentator is going to risk saying this, but we have to.

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

The progressive world has not caught up. And what is worse is a set of myths believed by liberals and progressives.

The myths began with the Enlightenment, and the first one goes like this: The truth will set us free. If we just tell people the facts, since people are basically rational beings, they'll all reach the right conclusions. But we know from cognitive science that people do not think like that. People think in frames.

There is a lot of speculation about what women are attracted to, and there are a lot of misconceptions.

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.