Best 472 quotes in «myth quotes» category

-Yo no aspiro a la fama ni me importa la eternidad. Me conformo con dejar buen recuerdo a los que me hayan conocido. Al fin y al cabo, nuestro valor es el de las cosas que dejemos al marcharnos.

You can’t expect to live in the world like the world’s your private myth.

You claim that the evidentiary miracle is present and available, namely, the Koran. You say: 'Whoever denies it, let him produce a similar one.' Indeed, we shall produce a thousand similar, from the works of rhetoricians, eloquent speakers and valiant poets, which are more appropriately phrased and state the issues more succinctly. They convey the meaning better and their rhymed prose is in better meter. … By God what you say astonishes us! You are talking about a work which recounts ancient myths, and which at the same time is full of contradictions and does not contain any useful information or explanation. Then you say: 'Produce something like it'‽

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

Your endurance is strongly influenced by your fundamental myth about the fighting.

You make the rarest canvas, love

Young scholars, learning their historical method from Gospel scholars, often treat it as self-evident that the more skeptical they are toward their sources, the more rigorous will be their historical method. It has to be said, over and over, that historical rigor does not consist in fundamental skepticism toward historical testimony but in fundamental trust along with testing by critical questioning…

Your money myth affects your gain and luck. In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

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

American public policy is run on a myth.

Art is the Western myth, with which we both console ourselves and make ourselves.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything.

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

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me.

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

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world

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

Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream.

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.

Fallen myths can instill venom.

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

Historically speaking all - or very nearly all - scientific theories originate from myths.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.

I actually met a producer of Stanley Kubrick's who told me that Kubrick had never even thought about doing Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. He just read it and didn't want to do it - that's it. There's a myth around that he said it's not filmable. But he never wanted to film it.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth. But, one of them was that he doesn't rehearse and another was that he doesn't really direct, if he doesn't like it...he cuts it out of the movie, or even replaces you.

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

Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that.

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

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of 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.

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

In the New Testament, myth stands over against the truth of the history of Jesus Christ ... the decisive die has ... been already cast in the New Testament opposition to myth.

Is it a bad sign when the thought of your x-girlfriend makes you say things like, Satan is a myth... I guess.