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Tag Name "Myth" (791)

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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 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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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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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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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 seldom simple, and never irresponsible.
Robert Graves
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Myths that need clarification: Everyone in California lives on a white, sandy beach. False. The only people who live on California beaches are vacationers from Arizona, Utah, and Nevada who own condos.
Erma Bombeck
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Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.
Dorothy Norman
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Myth is the nothing that is all.
Fernando Pessoa
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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 and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams
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Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.
Richard Dawkins
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Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.
Zsuzsanna Budapest
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Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.
Ashwin Sanghi
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Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.
Clyde S. Kilby
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
D. H. Lawrence
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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 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 nothing more than ancient gossip.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.
Maya Deren
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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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Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.
Jeff Bridges
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