Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde.
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows ...
We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or ideological tribe. We need myths that help us to realize the importance of compassion, which is not always regarded as...
Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.
There is scarcely any passion without struggle.
Is one to die voluntarily or to hope in spite of everything?
Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.
When stupidity of today joins with the stupidity of yesterday it becomes a myth; my myth a stupidity glorifies itself.
J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore the forces of creation as he saw them: God and country, race and class, journeying to war and returning home. I’ve...
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens - at a particular date, in a particular plac...
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and ...
They never let you live it down. One little mistake!"- Nero
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.
It is a generally accepted myth that all creation stories are myths.
