Quotes of: Myth Keyword

it's a myth, you know; he doesn't have to draw blood for him to leave a scar.

True Love and Other Myths

Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Failure is a greater teacher than success

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

Ross MacDonald

I don't know about you, the world is here to be mythologized. It has, therefore, no other end. Transforming into myth, to be a myth! That's what we call eternity.

Ä°lhan Berk

A myth is an old lie that people believe in. White people believe that they're better than anyone else on earth - and that's a myth.

Ernest Gaines

The belief that myths are somehow less true than the symbolic dream we call 'reality' may be the greatest myth of all.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

Harold Bloom

THE attention of the writer having been called to the fact that all Indo-Germanic nations have worshipped crucified Saviours, an investigation of the subject was made. Overwhelming proof was obtained that the sun-myths of the ancient Aryans were the ...

Aryan Sun Myths: The Origin of Religions

The best lesson from the myths of Newton and Archimedes is to work passionately but to take breaks. Sitting under trees and relaxing in baths lets the mind wander and frees the subconscious to do work on our behalf. Freeman Dyson, a world-class physi...

The Myths of Innovation

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

The Beauty Myth

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Creativity is a team sport.

The Myths of Creativity: The Truth about How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas

Le jugement du corps vaut bien celui de l'esprit et le corps recule devant l'anéantissement. Nous prenons l'habitude de vivre avant d'acquérir celle de penser.

The Myth of Sisyphus

Si je me demande à quoi juger que telle question est plus pressante que telle autre, je réponds que c'est aux actions qu'elles engage.

The Myth of Sisyphus

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage

No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.

Lester Bangs

Of course, if 40% of women need oxytocin to progress normally, then something is wrong with the definition of normal.

Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.

Maxine Hong Kingston