Myth Quotes - Page 29

• The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in a weak manner, gentle and tender through the heartbeat of a child.

  Rick Dees

  Children, Heart, World

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• The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

  Suzy Kassem

  Men, Survival, Chance

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, December 12, 2010.

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• What they teach you as history is mythology and true mythology is far from fantasy -- it is our true history. A bulk of our real history can be found in Egyptian and Greek mythology. Yes, myths reveal to us worlds of other dimensions that make up our true reality. History books teach us that the minds of the past operated on the same frequency, dimension, or level of consciousness as we do now. Not true at all.

  Suzy Kassem

  Real, Book, Past

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• There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.

  Suzy Kassem

  Lying

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• 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.

  James K. A. Smith

  Narrative, Susceptible

  James K. A. Smith (2006). “Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church”, p.68, Baker Academic

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

  Pat Summitt

  Succeed, Individual Success, Individual

  Twitter post from May 28, 2012

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• The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another

  Oliver DeMille

  Educate, Humans, Human Beings

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• Creativity is simply the human brain forming new connections between ideas, and we all are engaged in this process every day. The common idea that there are some people who are creative and some who are not is a myth. On some level, we are all artists. We are all creators.

  Michael Gungor

  Creativity, Artist, Ideas

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• Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

  James Bovard

  Fall, Government, Law

  "Talkin’ to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• It is easy to imagine fantasy as physical and myth as real. We do it almost every moment. We do this as we dream, as we think, and as we cope with the world about us. But these worlds of fantasy that we form into the solid things around us are the source of our discontent. They inspire our search to find ourselves.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Dream, Real

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• Jesus Christ is the most famous Jew of all time, but is today remembered as a Christian. Surprisingly, the Jewish community has accepted this distortion of history, and tends to regard Jesus as an apostate. How odd that the Jews would accept a Christian version of one of their brethren rather than seeking to discover the man entombed beneath the myth.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Real, Real Things

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• The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Stars, Real, Taken

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• All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Fancy, Gains, Reason

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Women, Independence, Today

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

  James A. Baldwin

  America, Identity, Heroic

  "For the Love of God — and Country" by Bryan Berghoef, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2013.

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• I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Dream, Women

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• The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

  Alistair Cooke

  Scotland, People, Mind

  Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

  Alistair Cooke

  Sports, Facts, Harder

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.14, Arcade Publishing

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• The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

  John Fowles

  Optimistic, Simple, Republic

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

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• Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

  John Howe

  Art, Inspiration, Europe

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• Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

  Diana Trilling

  People, Faces, Ideology

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.

  Lewis Thomas

  Independent, Islands, Self

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners.

  Mary McCarthy

  Cities, Venice, Doubt

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

  Jean M. Auel

  Years, Twenties, Research

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