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Tag Name "Myth" (798)

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Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.
Richard Dawkins
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Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.
Albert Camus
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Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.
Rudolf Bultmann
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
Anne Carson
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Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.
Robert Graves
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Myths that need clarification: No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears. False. It depends on how many children the out-of-towners brought with them who kicked the back of your seat from Phoenix to Flagstaff and got their gum caught in your hair.
Erma Bombeck
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Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.
Donna J. Haraway
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Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.
Dorothy Norman
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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
Edith Hamilton
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Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
Paul Ricoeur
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Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Myth is a tale once believed as truth believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some societies but myths for others cannot fill spiritual vacancies in the life of those others.
Laura Riding
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Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces that are supposed to govern it. They both fix the limits of what is considered as possible.
Francois Jacob
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Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form.
Joseph Campbell
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Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.
Haruki Murakami
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Myth is what we call other people's religion.
Joseph Campbell
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
Joseph Campbell
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Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.
Zsuzsanna Budapest
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Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.
Jeanette Winterson
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Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.
Maya Deren
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Myth is someone else's religion.
Caroline Llewellyn
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Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.
Roberto Calasso
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Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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