Myths Quotes

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

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

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

There are a lot of myths about gay people.

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career.

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

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.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.