Myth Quotes - Page 7

• For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy, it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of an Indian, Persian, Chinese, or Neo-Platonic mystic it is a matter of indifference whether Rama, Buddha, Laotse, or Porphyrius are myths or not. The mystic has no personal relation to them. It is not here a question of somebody telling me the truth which of myself I cannot find, but of my finding an access to the depths of the world in the depths of my soul.

  Emil Brunner

  Plato, Philosophy, Practice

  Emil Brunner (1931). “The Word and the World”

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• There is a sad myth going around today - the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every point of view an equal chance to be heard. And it works fairly well - unless you are a Christian.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Religious, Views

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• Belief in a certain series of myths was neither obligatory as a part of the true religion, nor was it supposed that, by believing, a man acquired religious merit and conciliated the favour of the gods.

  William Robertson Smith

  Religious, Believe, Men

  William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.17, Transaction Publishers

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• So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was once and for a very long time the superior and dominant sex.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Sex, Believe, Long

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• It is not easy to free
  myth from reality
  or rear this fellow up
  to lutch, lurch with them
  in the tranced dancing of men.

  Earle Birney

  Reality, Men, Dancing

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• I was interested first of all in trying to capture this myth that was always changing and to create some sort of a master story, some version of the myth that resonated with me, since I could have taken more or less any detail that I wanted or the opposite and try to put that down on the page in a way that I could express from that outset for myself and for our readers what it was that was so magical about [Buckminster] Fuller's way of putting together the world.

  Jonathon Keats

  Taken, Opposites, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebody should check it out.

  Margaret Atwood

  Phones, Bakers, Coffins

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2016.

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• I realized that Owen [Suskind] is completely brilliant, because he embraced and memorized all these classic Disney films - these fables that chronicle the hero's journey, and have existed for thousands of years. Owen, in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Hero, Journey, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes, which contain a moral guide that connects people.

  Roger Ross Williams

  People, Experts, Fables

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.

  Werner Herzog

  War, Fall, Volcanoes

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• My early stories revolved around reality and faith. I wrote a series of stories about the darker aspects of Christian myth: a woman who hides in the attic and watches the Apocalypse, a cult whose members preserve themselves in huge formalin tubs waiting for the Second Coming, and so on.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Christian, Reality, Waiting

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• 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.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Thinking, Process, Shows

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• Christian nation mythologists pump themselves up with narratives of American exceptionalism and Christian domination. But sooner or later even their most devoted followers should begin to see that also depicting it as vulnerable to non-existent threats undermines the myth itself.

  Sarah Posner

  Christian, Pumps, Narrative

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• There is a myth that the New Deal programs on their own pulled the US out of the Great Depression and created the conditions for the economic boom after World War II. As an economist, I can tell you, that is not true. In reality, it was mainly World War II that launched the boom - the massive war mobilization, the horrifying destruction and death caused by it, and then the reconstruction in its aftermath. he US was the only advanced capitalist country that was not bombed during the war.

  Kshama Sawant

  Country, War, Reality

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Today, aid to Colombia is given under the pretext of a drug war. That's pretty hard to take seriously. Ten years ago, Amnesty International flatly called it a myth.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Years, Drug

  Source: www.madre.org

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• I know that there's this one Albanian myth that's always reflected on, and I think it reflects on the actual core culture. That myth is called The Besa. B-E-S-A. The Besa is a word that Albanians use to mean avow, but it's such a strong promise, that even past death, one cannot break that promise. It is unfathomable. So if you give someone your besa, life or death, heaven or hell, you have to fulfill that besa.

  Masiela Lusha

  Strong, Mean, Past

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.

  Werner Herzog

  Thinking, Volcanoes, Korea

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered the study of "Anglo-Saxon Law." And that myth of Anglo-Saxonism carries right over into the early twentieth century.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Virginia, Law

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that gratitude desperately.

  Robert Bly

  Gratitude, Thinking, Needs

  Source: www.utne.com

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• It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

  Hershel Shanks

  Book, Biblical, Epic

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

  Sergio Leone

  America, Cinema, Stories

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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

  Andre Alexis

  Catholic, Way, Agnostic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Race, Goes On, Horrible

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.

  Lisa Ling

  Long, American Exceptionalism, Exceptionalism

  "Interview: Sonia Kennebeck, Ines Hofmann Kanna, & Lisa Ling on Giving Wings to 'National Bird'". Interview with Stephen Saito, moveablefest.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Carl Jung put [Orfeo Angelucci] in his last book [Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1959]. He said Orfeo had made up a new bible.

  Paul Laffoley

  Book, Sky, Flying

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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