Best 472 quotes in «myth quotes» category

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.

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

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

I think the older you get, you start to break down the myth and you get to the dirt of it - and if you still love the dirt, then I think you should stay on board.

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.

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

It is true that race is a social fiction, a myth perpetuated by a variety of peoples throughout the modern period, especially, to further their own gains at the expense of others.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

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

Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

Like mold on books, grow myths on history.

Myth and tool mutually constitute each other.

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.

Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

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.

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

Magic is at the core of myths.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.

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

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.

Myths are lies that tell the truth.

Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth.

Myths are seldom simple, and never irresponsible.

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

Myth is very powerful and fiction is very powerful.

Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.

Now is the time to become a myth.

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

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

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.

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

Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.

Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

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

Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware of something is to be aware of it as something. This short circuit between "awareness of" and "awareness as" inhibits the project of self-understanding because it perpetuates the assumption that there is a point where being and knowing coincide.

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.