Myth Quotes

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?

The closeness of reality and the distance of myth, because if there is no distance you aren't amazed, and if there is no closeness you aren't moved.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.

Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths.

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication.

Am I a myth? Am I a legend? Or am I a phenomenon?

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

to change our realities, we also have to change our myths. As history amply demonstrates, myths and realities go hand in hand.

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

We live in our myths, we only endure reality.

We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.

One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth

I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man,
which,
if we but knew it,
would make us understand all he did and thought.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

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.

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Alongside the mythos of the eternal free soul stands the Myth, the religion of the blood.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one.

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth

You can't create a myth on your own. People do it for you.

Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same.

Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

I think there's a myth that people feel, that people of success are never fearful, that we're never challenged, that we have some supernova - no, we're like everybody else.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

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

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.

Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait.

I think a myth is created from truth.

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them.